A Wikipedia article on Bartholomew the Apostle, recording that he is most commonly depicted in art holding his own flayed skin and the knife with which he was skinned, sometimes draping the skin around his body, and that from the sixteenth century onward this flaying imagery became a virtual constant of his iconography.
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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here to confirm the flayed skin and knife as Bartholomew's standard sixteenth-century artistic attributes, independently corroborated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own catalogue naming an actual 1523 print of Saint Bartholomew. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_the_Apostle
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Bartholomew directly: "A Wikipedia article on Bartholomew the Apostle, recording that he is most commonly depicted in art holding his own flayed skin and the knife with which he was skinned, sometimes draping the skin..."
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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