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The panting belongs to a series of nine panels commissioned by High Inquisitor Torquemada for the St Thomas Church in Ávila. The painting shows Italian, mainly Florentine influence.
St Peter Martyr was a Dominican monk and inquisitor in 13th century Verona who battled mercilessly the heretics. His tomb was the scene of a number of miracles and he was canonized in 1552. His cult in Spain became strong in the beginnning of the 16th century.
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