# St Casilda [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ZURBARÁN, Francisco de]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 171 x 107 cm ## Commentary The painting of St Casilda follows a typology invented by Zurbaran and repeated in other paintings of martyr saints. The saint is represented full-length in half profile, with the appearance and rich clothing of a young woman of the 17th century. She is shown taking part in a procession, set against a dark background. St Casilda is associated with the miraculous transformation of bread into roses as was St Elizabeth of Hungary and Thuringia. Casilda was the daughter of the Emir of Toledo and was secretly converted to Christianity. She gave bread to her father's prisoners. When the bread was miraculously turned into flowers she was saved from exposure like the charitable Elizabeth who gave food to the poor. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Agnus Dei]() - [Apostle St Andrew]() - [Childhood of the Virgin]() - [Christ Blessing]() - [Christ on the Cross]() - [Christ on the Cross]() - [Cup of Water and a Rose on a Silver Plate]() - [Defence of Cadiz against the English]() - [Immaculate Conception]() - [Madonna with Child]() - [Meditation of St Francis]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()