# St Andrew Condemned by Aegeus [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CIGNANI, Carlo]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary This painting is above the antechoir passageway in Sant'Andrea della Valle. It belongs to the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/p/preti/1valle1.html'\)" href="/html/p/preti/1valle1.html">scenes from the martyrdom of St Andrew</a> painted by Mattia Preti on the choir walls. Originally Preti was also supposed to paint the smaller panels above the passages to the presbytery chapels. Because of a litigation, he never actually did so, and the two panels were ultimately executed by the Albani pupils Carlo Cignani and Emilio Taruffi. The scenes - St Andrew Condemned by Aegeus, and <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/t/taruffi/andrew.html'\)" href="/html/t/taruffi/andrew.html">Arrival of the St Andrew Relic in Ancona</a> - produced jointly by the two young Bolognese artists completed the cycle. ## Related artworks - [Joseph and Potiphar's Wife]() - [Madonna and Child]() - [Shepherd and Shepherdess]() - [The Fall of Man \(detail\)]() - [The Fall of Man]() - [Venus and Cupid \(detail\)]() - [Venus and Cupid]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()