Lives and legends of the great hermits and fathers of the church, with other contemporary saints . orence, and in Fra Angelicos Coronation ofthe Virgin in the Louvre, the figure of St. Catherine isespecially beautiful. In the Madonna Enthroned by Andreadel Sarto in the Berlin Museum, the martyred maidenkneels by her broken wheel; in Botticellis Madonna withtwo Seraphs, in the Academy, Florence, she is groupedwith Saints Barnabas, John the Evangelist, and Ambrose; inSebastiano del Piombos St. John Chrysostom, in S. GiovanniCrisostomo, she appears with Saints Agnes and Mary Magda-lene. Andrea de
Lives and legends of the great hermits and fathers of the church, with other contemporary saints . orence, and in Fra Angelicos Coronation ofthe Virgin in the Louvre, the figure of St. Catherine isespecially beautiful. In the Madonna Enthroned by Andreadel Sarto in the Berlin Museum, the martyred maidenkneels by her broken wheel; in Botticellis Madonna withtwo Seraphs, in the Academy, Florence, she is groupedwith Saints Barnabas, John the Evangelist, and Ambrose; inSebastiano del Piombos St. John Chrysostom, in S. GiovanniCrisostomo, she appears with Saints Agnes and Mary Magda-lene. Andrea del Sarto introduced her in his fine Pieta,now in the Pitti Gallery, Florence, in which she kneels behindthe Magdalene at the foot of the dead Christ. In Titianscelebrated Cornaro Family, now in the Alnwick collection, the * O Lord, now that the mysteries of eternal salvation have been shownforth, we. Thy humble suppliants, beseech Thee, that even as the balm flow-ing from the limbs of St. Catherine, Thy Virgin and Martyr, heals the bodiesof the sick, so may her prayers preserve us from all Anderson fhoid] \Appartamenti Borgia, Vatican, Rome ST. CATHERINE DISPUTING WITH THE WISE MEN By Pifituricchio To face p. 94 ST. CATHERINE OF 95 unfortunate Catherine, Queen of Cyprus, is represented asSt. Catherine of Alexandria, and in the Madonna and Childwith St. Catherine, by Palma Vecchio, in the Vienna Gallery,the artist has taken his own lovely daughter as the model forthe martyred Saint. The mystic Marriage of St. Catherine was a very favouritesubject with German, Flemish, and Italian artists. One ofthe very earliest copperplate engravings, by the anonymous Master of 1466, represents the ceremony as taking place inheaven, at the foot of the throne of the Virgin, who is aboutto place a wreath of roses, handed to her by St. Dorothea, onthe head of the kneeling St. Catherine, beside whom standsthe bridegroom, a child of five or six years old, who placesthe ring on the f
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