Catherine of Alexandria
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And of the 12 on loan, only one is by a woman - Gentileschi's Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria.
From BBC ● May 10, 2024
In case you miss the point, a dead fish is impaled at the base of the wheel, like some supermarket Saint Catherine of Alexandria.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2017
It shows an angel warning Saint Catherine of Alexandria, a virtuous virgin queen, of her impending martyrdom.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2016
For example, there is the eloquently painted “Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Elizabeth of Hungary, Catherine of Alexandria, Peter, and John the Evangelist with Angels.”
From Washington Times ● Feb. 1, 2015
He had picked up the first fragment, a slender St. Catherine of Alexandria demurely leaning upon her spiked wheel, at a provincial antiquary's in Romagna, not far from where the ancona had been impiously dismembered.
From The Collectors by Mather, Frank Jewett
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