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The Burial of Saint Lucy
1608 · Basilica Santuario di Santa Lucia al Sepolcro, Siracusa
For Saint Lucy · 13 December
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Saint Lucy lies on the ground, and two gravediggers, huge, bend to their work in front of her. The mourners stand close behind, a bishop in a white mitre among them, and above them the wall goes up bare. X-ray imaging shows Caravaggio first painted her beheaded, then left only a cut at the throat; Athanor, citing Zuccari and Marini, reads that as Greek martyrdom traded for Latin, and takes the bishop for San Marziano. Howard Hibbard notes the powerful emptiness overhead. The Senate of Syracuse is the commonly cited patron, in 1608, though no commission document survives. A spade is already in the earth.
Sources: diagnostic imaging: the throat wound is a repainted decapitation · Athanor, citing Zuccari and Marini · the Senate of Syracuse as the commonly cited patron, October 1608, shown for Lucy's feast on 13 December — and that no commission document has been traced · Howard Hibbard, Caravaggio (1985)