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#StCatherineofAlexandria, C17th, by #MaddalenaCorvina (Italian, 1607-1664). Private collection.

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A small tempera on parchment painting depicting the half body of Saint Catherine of Alexandria. Her outstretched right arm is holding a martyr’s palm, and her left hand is resting on her martyr’s attribute, the wheel. She wears a blue gown with white sleeves; a gold colored cloak falls down her shoulder and across the wheel.
November 25, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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Mystical Marriage of #SaintCatherineofAlexandria, 1649, by #MichaelinaWautier (So. Netherlands, c. 1614-1689). Held by Grand Séminaire, Namur; source, balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?ob... #womenartists #artherstory #FeastOfStCatherine #SaintCatherine #StCatherine #StCatherineofAlexandria
A painting of three women. At center-left is the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child in her lap. At center right is St Catherine in a gold-trimmed white gown, reaching with her right hand toward the baby; her left forearm is draped over a broken wheel, her attribute. Between these two women stands St. Barbara, holding a martyr's palm. At the far right, from the background, St. Joseph looks on; at the right, a toddler John the Baptist looks on. At the right edge of the painting, on the other side of St. John, is a lamb (painted head-on, from the front).
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Mystical Marriage of #StCatherine, c. 1640-60, by #JosefaDeÓbidos ( #JosefaDeAyalaFigueira; #JosefaDeAyala; Portuguese, ca. 1630–1684). Held by the National Museum of Ancient Art; source, upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... #womenartists #artherstory #FeastOfStCatherine #StCatherineofAlexandria
A painting of an interior in which three women sit or kneel gazing at the child in the lap of the woman at the far left, who wears a pink gown and blue cloak (the Virgin Mary). The woman in the middle is older (Saint Anne?). The kneeling woman at the right is richly attired; in front of her is a broken wheel, the attribute of St. Catherine of Alexandria. In the background behind the women, two angels and a man presumably St. Joseph, look on.
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM