“Pietro da Cortona’s ‘St. Martina,’ a luminous image of a martyred young woman by an artist best known for his vast allegorical fresco on the ceiling of the Palazzo Barberini in Rome, was a gift of the Ahmanson Foundation. J. Patrice Marandel, the museum’s curator of European paintings and sculpture, said the gift fulfills his wish to add ‘some heavy hitters, some big, big names’ to LACMA’s substantial holding of Baroque paintings.”