We float high above the land, looking across rolling hills toward a shimmering, aquamarine-blue body of water to our left and towns peppered along taller mountains to our right, beneath an incoming storm in this horizontal painting. The horizon comes about halfway up the painting. Only upon closer inspection does one discover dozens of tiny men and women scattered in groups or individually across the landscape. Closest to us but still tiny in scale, at the lower center, a man wearing a scarlet-red tunic and dark pants chops down a tree as another man wearing navy blue walks away from us. A…
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The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine

painter Antwerp 16th Century

Possibly painter Matthys Cock (Netherlandish, c. 1509 - 1548)

c. 1540

Medium
oil on plywood transferred from panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 62.2 x 118.2 cm (24 1/2 x 46 9/16 in.) ; framed: 86.3 x 141.6 x 8.2 cm (34 x 55 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
Culture
Antwerp
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions violence, death or gore. How works are placed

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