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The Burial of St. Petronilla is an altarpiece painted by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino) around 1623. It simultaneously depicts the burial and the welcoming to heaven of the martyred St. Petronilla. The altarpiece was painted for St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome for a chapel dedicated to the saint and containing her relics. It is now on display in the Capitoline Museums of Rome.Petronilla whose name means little rock is popularly believed to have been the daughter of St.
