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Catherine of Alexandria, also spelled Katherine[a] (Greek: Αίκατερίνη) is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early fourth century at the hands of the emperor Maxentius. According to her hagiography, she was both a princess and a noted scholar who became a Christian around the age of 14 ...
Catherine of Alexandria is a tempera painting created by Ieremias Palladas. Palladas was a monk associated with Saint Catherine 's sacred monastery in Egypt also known as Mount Sinai. He was a painter and teacher.
Saint Catherine of Alexandria was a popular figure in Catholic iconography. Her qualities are supposed to be those of beauty, fearlessness, virginity, and intelligence. She was of noble origins, and dedicated herself as a Christian after having a vision. At the age of 18 she confronted the Roman Emperor Maximus (presumably this refers to ...
Dimensions. 72.2 cm × 55.7 cm (28.4 in × 21.9 in) Location. National Gallery, London. Saint Catherine of Alexandria is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. In the painting, Catherine of Alexandria is looking upward in ecstasy and leaning on a wheel, an allusion to the breaking wheel (or Catherine wheel) of her martyrdom. [1]
Barna da Siena, c. 1340. Although Saint Catherine of Alexandria was supposed to have lived in the third and fourth centuries, the story of her vision appears first to be found in literature after 1337, over a thousand years after the traditional dating of her death, and ten years before Catherine of Siena was born. [3]
Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria is a 1615–1617 painting by the Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, showing the artist in the guise of Catherine of Alexandria. It is now in the collection of the National Gallery, London, which purchased it in 2018 for £3.6 million, including about £2.7 million from its American ...
209 cm × 154 cm (82 in × 61 in) Location. Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria is a 1648 painting by the Spanish artist Jusepe de Ribera [1] owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. [2] The museum acquired The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria in 1934 from ...
1495-1500. Medium. oil on panel. Dimensions. 81 cm × 63 cm (32 in × 25 in) Location. Louvre, Paris. Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist and St Catherine of Alexandria is a c.1495 oil on panel painting by Perugino of the Madonna and Child with John the Baptist and Catherine of Alexandria. It is now in the Louvre in Paris. [1][2]