5 Virgin Martyrs in a Garden (Right half: M 070) Postcard

Clockwise: Wearing a red pillbox hat and a black or very dark navy-blue cloak embroidered with towers, a kneeling St. Barbara proffers a red rose to the infant Jesus (not visible in this detail); a seated St. Margaret of Antioch makes marginal notes in the book she is reading with a cross-topped pen; St. Agatha holds up one of her forcibly removed breasts with a pair of tongs; St. Christina holds a crossbow bolt (not an arrow) and a miniature cradle; and, finally, St. Agnes, who is holding up a ruby ring, sits on the ground with her lamb. + Image Credit (M 070): Right half of Virgo inter Virgines [in Latin; La Vierge parmi les vierges in French; The Virgin among Virgins in English], by The Master of the Legend of St. Lucy (fl. c. 1435-1506/1509), oil on oak panel, 67.3"x42.5" (171 cm x 108 cm), c. 1488, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, inv. 2576. From Wikimedia Commons {PD-Art|PD-Old-100}. The image file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighbouring rights.