The Bookworm is an 1857 oil-on-canvas painting by the German painter and poet Carl Spitzweg
One of the most famous and universally recognized images of St
He is surrounded by a celestial aura
Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children
Francesco Hayez was an Italian painter
St. Philomena crowing The Bookworm is an 1857This belongs to a Private Collection, painted by a German School. The life of Saint Philomena of Rome, protector of children, infants and expectant mothers, as well as of prisoners and torture victims, came about during an archaeological dig in the Catacombs of Priscilla in 1802. A tomb slab with the inscription Peace be to you, Filomena, belonging to a tomb containing, alongside a female skeleton, a glass phial with a dried up liquid, led its