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Saint Catherine of Alexandria,
early 16th century
Flemish
y1953-77
An especially fine example of Northern Renaissance carving, this figure of Saint Catherine of Alexandria demonstrates the taste for complicated coifs and fantastic hair decorations typical of the time. Her fashionable attire contrasts with her meditative attitude as she consults a holy text, perhaps in preparation for her dispute with Roman Emperor Maximinus, whom she challenged to end persecution of the Christians. Famed for her eloquence, she was invoked by theologians, orators, and philosophers.
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Title
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Dates
early 16th century
Medium
Walnut with traces of polychromy
Dimensions
112 x 31.5 x 29.4 cm (44 1/8 x 12 3/8 x 11 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection
Object Number
y1953-77
Place Made
Europe, Netherlands, Brabant
Culture
Type
Subject
Troyes, France. (Mathias Komor); 1953 museum purchase.
- "Acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 13, no. 2, (1954): p. 62-63., p. 63
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The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 1956)
, no. 40[? -obscured on card] - Robert A. Koch, "A Gothic sculpture of the Ascending Christ", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 19, no. 1 (1960): p. 37-43., p. 38
- Claude Bergeron, "A Brabantine sculpture of St. Catherine", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 26, no. 2 (1967): p. 36-44., p. 36 (illus.); p. 37 (illus.)
- "Technical report of treatment", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 26, no. 2 (1967): p. 45., p. 45
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 252 (illus.)
