Saint Catherine of Alexandria
St. Catherine appears here with the palm, symbol of martyrdom, the spiked wheel on which she was tortured, and a book, which alludes to her role as a patron of education. In the flickering candlelight of the church, the billowing folds of her garment would have given her a lif...
Sculpture
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37848
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sculpture
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normalized
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provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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1
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import
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