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Title:
St. Catherine of Siena and Female Devotee
Creator:
Vanni, Andrea, painter
Description:
Catherine wears the white habit and black cloak of a Mantellata (Third Order Dominican) and holds a lily, the symbol of her purity. Her hands bear signs of the stigmata, which Catherine reportedly received on April 1, 1375. A young woman dressed in secular clothes, possibly the image donor, kneels at Catherine's feet and kisses her fingers.
Source:
WikiMedia Commons
Rights:
Public domain
Subject
(See Also)
:
Catherine of Siena, Saint
Donor Portraits
Flowers
Stigmata
Geographic Area:
Italy
Century:
14
Date:
circa 1380-1383
Related Work:
Current Location:
Original Location:
Siena, Basilica of San Domenico
Artistic Type (Category):
Digital images; Paintings
Artistic Type (Material/Technique):
Frescoes (paintings)
Donor:
Laywoman; Giovanna Piccolomini, Italian noble woman who died in 1383
Height/Width/Length(cm):
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Inscription:
Related Resources:
Diana Norman suggests that the donor is presented in a pose typical of widows (Siena, Florence, and Padua: Case Studies. Yale University Press, 1995. Page 264). Ingeborg Bähr identifies the donor as Giovanna Piccolomini who left a bequest for a chapel dedicated to Catherine. Because Catherine had not yet been canonized, Bähr suggests that a chaple was not deemed appropriate and this painting was substituted to meet the bequest (Das Katherinenfresko in San Domenico in Siena: eine Stiftung aus dem Schülerkreis der Heiligen? Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz XXVIII/3 (1984) 385-388).