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Here she is standing on the prone figure of  her tormentor, the Emperor Maxentius. Her left hand holds a book contained in a book bag.  Her right hand, now missing, would originally have held a sword. Only the wood dowel used to fix the hand to the forearm now survives. \r\n\r\nThe style of the heads and the carving of the draperies suggest that this sculpture may be from the the workshop of the so-called Master of Elsloo. This Master is named after a multi-coloured group of St Anne with the Virgin and Child, now in the Augustinuskerk in Elsloo, in the Netherlands. The sculptor is probably Jan van Oel, who was working in and around Roermond in about 1500-1520.\r\n\r\nThis type of free-standing statue might well have stood on a bracket or against a pier in a chapel, church or convent.  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