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Description: | St Catherine of Alexandria was converted to Christianity at a young age and was persecuted by Maximus whom she challenged by converting his pagan philosophers, his wife and the leader of his army. All were martyred. Maximus ordered that she should be broken on the wheel but she touched it and the wheel was destroyed. She was beheaded and her body taken away by angels. St. Catherine is portrayed kneeling and holding her typical attributes of a palm branch and the broken wheel. The Glasgow painting, and the depiction of Saint Ursula (inv. no. 167), are both attributed to Benvenuto da Tisi, better known as Garofalo. Garofalo painted several female saints set in a similar background with architecture on the left and a landscape background on the right (Santa Lucia, Musei Capitolini, Rome, Santa Caterina d'Alessandrina, Landesmuseum, Oldenburg; Santa Cecilia, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica di Palazzo Barberini, Rome). | Subjects: | religion (St Catherine); figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Garofalo, Benvenuto Tisi da (Italian painter, 1481-1559) Æ Manner of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8812... | Go to resource |
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