Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Workshop of Jan Crocq, ca. 1475–1525

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Saint Catherine of Alexandria, ca. 1475–1525, Made in Lorraine, France, French, Limestone with traces of paint, Overall: 61 1/2 x 22 1/2 x 14 1/4 in. ( x x cm), Sculpture-Stone, Workshop of Jan Crocq (South Netherlandish, before 1465–after 1510), Saint Catherine stands over the crouching figure of Emperor Maxentius who ordered fifty pagan philosophers to refute her Christian faith. First tortured on a spiked wheel that was miraculously destroyed by a thunderbolt, Catherine was finally martyred by decapitation

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