St Thomas (도마)

 

 

(요 11:16)

디두모라고도 하는 도마가 다른 제자들에게 말하되 우리도 주와 함께 죽으러 가자 하니라

 

 

 

 

 

Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640

St Thomas

oil on panel (108 × 83 cm) — c. 1611

  Museo del Prado, Madrid

Peter Paul Rubens biography

 

This work is linked to John 11:16

 

Around 1612 Rubens made a series of portraits of the apostles, in commission of the duke of Lerma. All paintings show an attribute to identify the apostle. Thomas holds a spear, the weapon that supposedly killed him and made him a martyr.

 

 

 

 

Diego Rodríguez da Silva y Velázquez 1599 – 1660

Saint Thomas

oil on canvas (94 × 73 cm) — 1618-1620

  Musée des beaux-arts, Orléans

Diego Rodríguez da Silva y Velázquez biography

 

This work is linked to John 11:16

 

The apostle Thomas. He wears a heavy habit and carries his usual attribute: the spear that was used to kill him.

Velázquez used the model he also used for St John at Patmos