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St. James Led to His Execution
St. James Led to His Execution was a painting by Andrea Mantegna. It was destroyed on March 11, 1944, when the Ovetari Chapel in Padua was bombed by the Allies during World War II.
The British Museum owns a preparatory drawing for the painting.
-eye view perspective, "St. James Led to His Execution". (For an example of Mantegna's use of a lowered viewpoint, see the image at right of Saints Peter and Paul; though much less dramatic in its perspective than the "St. James" picture, the "San Zeno" altarpiece was around 1455 not long after the St. James cycle was finished, and uses many of the same techniques, including an architectural structure based on Classical antiquity.)
The sketch for the "St. Stephen" fresco