met-medieval-art:Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Medieval ArtGift of Edit
met-medieval-art:Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Medieval ArtGift of Edith Sachs, 1950Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NYMedium: Walnuthttp://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/468353German, ca. 1530 (and I would guess the clothes she’s dressed in are contemporary to that time)Because of her faith, Saint Catherine, a fourth-century virgin martyr, was tortured on a wheel and beheaded by a sword. The book she holds alludes to the knowledge that enabled her to refute the arguments of fifty pagan philosophers of Alexandria, one of whom is represented below her feet.(Is it just me, or does the “pagan philosopher’s” hat look… eastern European/Russian? After all, the Lithuanians didn’t accept Christianity as even their official state religion until the late 14th/early 15th centuries, which meant that they were basically the last bastion of paganism in Europe, and might be what Germans thought of when they thought of “pagans”?) -- source link
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