Fun Fact about Duomo di Milano Cathedral in Milan, Italy. This is the St. Bartholomew sculpture by Marco D'Adrate (1562). According to legends, the St. Bartholomew, the Apostle, was skinned alive and beheaded. He is often represented like that, but not how Marco d’Agrate presented him here. Here, he looks like a man carrying a drape around his shoulders and body. But that is his skin.