The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara, ca. 1510, Oil on linden, Overall 60 3/8 x 54 1/4 in. (153. 4 x 137. 8 cm) ; painted surface 59 3/8 x 53 1/8 in. (150. 8 x 134. 9 cm), Paintings, Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, Kronach 1472?1553 Weimar), According to legend, Saint Barbara was executed by her heathen father, Dioscorus, when she refused to recant her Christian faith. Luxuriously dressed, she seems here to calmly accept her fate as she kneels before Dioscorus, who raises his sword to behead her