. Sacred and legendary art . in the character of St. Catherine. 17. Paul Veronese. St. Catherine, kneeling on her brokenwheel, looks up at the Madonna and Child on a throne is here attired as a Venetian lady of rank, and wears theroyal crown. 18. Annibal Caracci. St. Catherine, as patroness of thearts and sciences, and St. Luke as patron saint of painting, oneach side of the Madonna and Child. 19. Guido. She is kneeling, as martyr, with clasped handsand flowing hair; the figure, being taken from one of the dis-consolate mothers in the famous Massacre of the Innocents, ?^ [Morelli saj
. Sacred and legendary art . in the character of St. Catherine. 17. Paul Veronese. St. Catherine, kneeling on her brokenwheel, looks up at the Madonna and Child on a throne is here attired as a Venetian lady of rank, and wears theroyal crown. 18. Annibal Caracci. St. Catherine, as patroness of thearts and sciences, and St. Luke as patron saint of painting, oneach side of the Madonna and Child. 19. Guido. She is kneeling, as martyr, with clasped handsand flowing hair; the figure, being taken from one of the dis-consolate mothers in the famous Massacre of the Innocents, ?^ [Morelli sajs that the St. Catherine at Frankfort ascribed to Cesare daSesto is certainlj* not by him, but more probably by a Lombardo-Venetianpainter.] 2 [The so-called daughter Violante was probably a favorite model, as it isnow known that Palma had no daughter.] ST. CATHERINE 473 slightly altered, is deficient in character. The wheels are inthe background. (Windsor Gallery.) 20. St. Catherine reading. To distinguish her from other. St. Catherine (Lucas van Leyden) saints who also read, a small wheel is embroidered on herbook. 21. Domenichino. She is standing, as patron saint, withcrown, sword, palm, and wheel. The attributes crowded ; thefigure majestic, but mannered, and without much is also the same figure, half length, at Windsor. 474 THE VIRGIN PATRONESSES 22. Domenichino. She is standing, as martyr; an angeldescends with the crown and palm: very dignified and beauti-ful. (Sutherland Gallery.) 23. St. Catherine reading ; she rests one hand, which holdsthe palm, on her wheel. In such pictures she is the patronessof students and scholars. There is an example at HamptonCourt. [Attributed to Correggio, in Ernest Laws catalogueof the Hampton Gallery Collection, 1894.] When St. Catherine is grouped with other saints, her usualpendant is St. Barbara, sometimes also Mary Magdalene; inthe Venetian pictures, frequently St. George. In the Germanpictures, St. Catherine is often
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