Saint Bartholomew holding the knife of his martyrdom and his flayed skin
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Saint Bartholomew holding the knife of his martyrdom and his flayed skin[1] is a detail from The Last Judgement of Michelangelo. It depicts a Saint Bartholomew sitting on a rock holding his flayed skin. The figure of St. Bartholomew was also theorized to depict the satirist and erotic writer Pietro Aretino, who had tried to extort a valuable drawing from Michelangelo; this theory has largely been refuted because the conflict between Michelangelo and Aretino did not occur until 1545, seven years after the fresco's completion.
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