By Italian sculptor Marco d'Agrate (c. 1504 -c. 1574), this pathologically-correct statue of the Apostle (1582) stands in the transept of the Duomo di Milano.
Christian tradition has three stories about Bartholomew's death: one speaks of his being kidnapped, beaten unconscious, and cast into the sea to drown. Another account states that he was crucified upside down, and another says that he was skinned alive and beheaded. The account of Bartholomew being skinned alive is the most represented in works of art, and consequently Bartholomew is often shown with a large knife, holding his own skin.