In Art
Saint Barbara is depicted in art as standing by a tower with three windows, carrying a palm branch and a chalice, sometimes with cannons depicted by her side.
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Saint Barbara flees from her father, by Peter Paul Rubens (c. 1620)
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The Holy Family with Saint Barbara and young Saint John, by Paolo Veronese (c. 1565)
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Saint Barbara, by Jan van Eyck (c. 1437)
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Traditional holy card design for Saint Barbara
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A Greek Orthodox icon of Saint Barbara.
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Saint Barbara by Corrado Parducci
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Sculpture of Saint Barbara on the Charles Bridge, Prague, by Jan and Ferdinand Brokoff, 1707
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An altar at St. Verena's Catholic Church in Roggenbeuren depicting Saint George and Saint Barbara.
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Saint Barbara crushing her infidel father, with a kneeling donor, by Domenico Ghirlandaio, ca. 1473
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Fourteenth-century sculpture in the Musée National de l'Age Médiévale, Paris
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St. Barbara receiving Christ's consolation while in prison
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Sculpture of St. Barbara above the entrance to Santa Barbara dei Librari
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St Barbara Directing the Construction of a Third Window in Her Tower, by the Master of the Joseph Sequence.
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The Martyrdom of St Barbara, by the Master of the Joseph Sequence.
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