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Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta
The Martyrdom of St. Catherine of Alexandria
Oil on panel
259 x 153 cm
c. 1566–68
Altarpiece in the Cesi chapel, Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome
Unusually, the artist has portrayed the Trinity witnessing St. Catherine's martyrdom.
Some details gleaned from:
- Steven F. Ostrow, "The Counter Reformation and the End of the Century", in Rome, ed. by Marcia B. Hall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), p. 254. Google preview)
- Fondazione Federico Zeri : Catalogo : Siciolante Girolamo da Sermoneta, Decapitazione di santa Caterina d'Alessandria
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