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This highly finished sheet is a compositional proposal, or modello, for the high altar of Santa Caterina dei Funari in Rome. Commissioned by Cardinal Federico Cesi for the left wall of the sanctuary, the painting was begun by Agresti in 1562/63 but finished by Federico Zuccaro in 1571/72. The subject is a conflation of two scenes taken from the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine. Above, Catherine asserts the tenets of Christianity before the Emperor Maxentius and 50 pagan orators assembled to argue against her; below, she is attended by an angel after the orators were converted and Maxentius had her imprisoned as punishment.
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| Medium | paper (fiber product) |
| Dimensions | 39 × 50 Cm |
| Certificate | Certificate not provided |
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given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.
given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.
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Louise Smith Bross, “She is among all virgins the queen…,” in Barbara Wisch and Diane Cole Ahl
Louise Smith Bross, “She is among all virgins the queen…,” in Barbara Wisch and Diane Cole Ahl (eds.), Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy: Ritual, Spectacle, Image (Cambridge, 2000), pp. 280–97, pl. 60.
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Louise Smith Bross, The Church of Santo Spirito in Sassia: A Study of the Development of Art, Architecture, and Patronage in Counter-Reformation Rome, Ph.D. dissertation University of Chicago, 1994, p. 373, fig, 257, p. 885
Louise Smith Bross, The Church of Santo Spirito in Sassia: A Study of the Development of Art, Architecture, and Patronage in Counter-Reformation Rome, Ph.D. dissertation University of Chicago, 1994, p. 373, fig, 257, p. 885
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Sold by Michael Miller/Lucy Vivant Fine Arts, Ltd....
Sold by Michael Miller/Lucy Vivant Fine Arts, Ltd., New York, to John A. Bross, Mar. 1994
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