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Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Image credit: The Henry Barber Trust, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham

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Saint Catherine holds the martyr’s palm on top of part of her spiked wheel. She was sentenced to be crushed on the wheel by the Emperor Maxentius because she had condemned the worship of pagan idols. According to legend, the wheel was miraculously destroyed and instead she was beheaded. Cavallino specialised in painting intimate small-scale images of saints for private collectors. The portrait format emphasises the ordinary human qualities of the Christian heroine.
Title

Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Date

probably late 1640s

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 71.7 x W 59 cm

Accession number

65.8

Acquisition method

purchased, 1965

Work type

Painting

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