Date : near 1380
Dimensions : 46 cm x 58 cm
Material : Tempera on canvas, Gold sheet
Acquisition : Bequest of Jean Fowles, in memory of her first husband, R. Langton Douglas (1981)
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Italian Painting
Painting (Thème religieux)
Area related
Florence (Italy)
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A princess of great learning and beauty, Saint Catherine was engaged by the Emperor Maxentius in a contest with fifty pagan orators, all of whom she converted to Christianity. In this painting Catherine is shown counting off the points of her dispute to two of the orators, who wear haloes as an indication of their conversion by her arguments. At the left kneel two diminutive donors wearing the habits of Franciscan tertiaries.
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