Shown from the hips up, a woman wearing a crown braces a wooden wheel against a gold background on a panel shaped to come to a sharp point at the top of this vertical painting. The woman’s pale skin is faintly tinged with green and gray. Her body faces us, and she looks at us with light brown, almond-shaped eyes. She has a long, straight nose, full cheeks, and her pink lips are closed. Her blond hair sweeps back from her face under the gold crown, which is set with blue and red gems. Her dress and cloak have gold leafy patterns against ivory white, and are edged with brick red. She wraps the…
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Saint Catherine of Alexandria, with an Angel [right panel]

Pietro Lorenzetti (Sienese, active 1306 - 1345)

probably 1340

Medium
tempera on panel transferred to canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 88.1 × 41.5 cm (34 11/16 × 16 5/16 in.) ; overall: 92 × 44.1 cm (36 1/4 × 17 3/8 in.)
Culture
Sienese
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Gift of Frieda Schiff Warburg in memory of her husband, Felix M. Warburg
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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