Image: German - Scenes from the Life of Saint Catherine of Alexandria - Walters 372638

Description: This three-part panel was originally part of a large altarpiece whose central image probably represented Saint Catherine with the wheel of her martyrdom. The left-hand panel depicts her vision of the Madonna and Child: the Christ Child did not find Catherine worthy because she wasn't baptised and refused to look at her. The middle scene illustrates her baptism. The right-hand panel presents her second vision of the Madonna and Child: as a baptised Christian she is now worthy in Christ's eyes and she is joined to him in a mystic marriage. The delicate figures reflect the continuing influence of the International Gothic style. Swabian painters of the following generation developed a more harsly realistic style. .
Title: Scenes from the Life of Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Credit: Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
Author: Anonymous (Germany)Unknown author
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