PROVENANCE: Cardinal Giuseppe Renato Imperiali, Genoa and Rome; Sir Erasmus Phillips, Bart., Picton Castle, England, before 1752, and thence by family descent until c. 1948; David Koester, New York, 1951; BJU, 1951.

By 1670 Maratta was the President of the Roman Academy of Art and the leading artist in Rome. He was also extremely clever at cleaning and repairing frescoes and worked on Raphael's frescoes in the Vatican which had been painted over 150 years earlier.

Andrew was the first disciple called by Christ and brought his brother, Peter, to Him. Tradition says that he was crucified on an X-shaped cross and tied, not nailed, to it. It is also said that he preached from the cross for two days before dying.