Riccardo Meacci worked, after studying under Mussini, in Siena where many of his works can still be seen. One of them is a triptych in the Basilica of Saint Francis St Peter receiving the Keys. All his works have religious and allegorical context and are painted with absolute intricacy and attention to detail. St Eustace, martyr, date unknown. Feast day 20 September. The legend of St Eustace relates that he was a general under the Roman Emperor Trajan (c. A.D 53-117), and that while out hunting near Tivoli he was converted to Christianity by a vision of a stag having a luminous Crucifix between its antlers. His conversion brought disgrace and penury on him but, after various misadventures with his family, he was reinstated and led his troops in a victorious campaign. When called on to join in thanksgiving to the gods, he refused and was roasted to death together with his wife and two sons. Eustace is not listed among Roman martyrs, and there is no evidence for an early cultus of him in either West or East. The episode of the stag is found in other legends of the saints e.g. Hubert, and in one form or another a similar incident is told in folk-tales of several Asiatic peoples. It is probable that St Eustace is a wholly fictitious character.