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Saint Margaret
c. 1518 · huile sur toile (transposition (bois transposé sur toile)) (oil on canvas, transferred from wood to canvas) · Musée du Louvre, Paris
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A bare foot rests on a folded dragon's wing, and the jaws beside her hang open and empty. Margaret has come out of that mouth. The legend, as Richard Stracke gives it in Christian Iconography, has the dragon swallow her whole, and at the sign of the cross it burst asunder. She carries only a palm, the martyr's branch; the Catholic Encyclopedia ties her death to her refusal to marry the prefect Olybrius. Dying, she prayed that God bless whoever in childbirth or other peril should read, write, or press to their body a copy of her story, and she is the patron of women in childbirth still. Raphael designed her; the painting is generally given to Giulio Romano's hand, and Leo X sent it to Francis I in 1518. Pope Gelasius called the legend apocryphal in 494. Margaret walks on out of it all the same.
Sources: Louvre object record: attribution (Raphael and Giulio Romano), medium/date, and the sole provenance sentence 'gift of Pope Leo X to King Francis I in 1518' · Royal Collection Trust, "St Margaret," RCIN 851502 · "St. Margaret," The Catholic Encyclopedia, New Advent · Richard Stracke, "Saint Margaret of Antioch: The Iconography," Christian Iconography (Augusta University)