# St Paul [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BECCAFUMI, Domenico]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on wood, 190 x 150 cm ## Commentary St Paul c. 1515 Oil on wood, 190 x 150 cm Museo dell'Opera della Metropolitana, Siena Often regarded as a 'Tuscan Mannerist,' Beccafumi introduces brittle colours including strident greens and sour yellows into his highly original figural vocabulary. In a painting celebrating St Paul, identified by his sword, Beccafumi unveils his highly linear approach. He seems to have rejected most of the lessons of Michelangelo, and Raphael for that matter, in favour of a completely personal and frequently eccentric interpretation. ## Related artworks - [Birth of the Virgin]() - [Fall of the Rebel Angels]() - [Fall of the Rebel Angels]() - [Head of a Youth Seen in Profile]() - [Hermathena]() - [Judgment of Zaleukos]() - [Madonna with the Infant Christ and St John the Baptist]() - [Moses and the Golden Calf]() - [Mystical Marriage of St Catherine]() - [Penelope]() - [Scipio Appeals to the Honour of his Soldiers]() - [St Jerome]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()