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Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta
The Martyrdom of St. Catherine of Alexandria
Oil on panel
259 x 153 cm
c. 1566–68
Altarpiece in the Cesi chapel, Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome

Unusually, the artist has portrayed the Trinity witnessing St. Catherine's martyrdom.

Some details gleaned from:
  • Steven F. Ostrow, "The Counter Reformation and the End of the Century", in Rome, ed. by Marcia B. Hall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), p. 254. Google preview)
  • Fondazione Federico Zeri : Catalogo : Siciolante Girolamo da Sermoneta, Decapitazione di santa Caterina d'Alessandria

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