ID: 700008705 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008705	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

St. Catherine of Alexandria (panel painting (painting by form); Simone Martini (Italian painter, ca. 1284-1344); ca. 1320-1325; National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada); no. 6430)

Note: This work was once the left panel of an altarpiece; it has been proposed that it belonged to a polyptych originally in S. Francesco, Orvieto, the central panel of which is now in the Opera del Duomo, Orvieto.

Titles:

St. Catherine of Alexandria (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Sainte Catherine d'Alexandrie (C,U,French-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

panel painting (painting by form) [300033656] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by form>)

altarpiece [300075940]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by function>, religious visual works)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1320-1325

Creator Display:

Simone Martini (Italian painter, ca. 1284-1344) [preferred,VP]

painter Term Not Found [500029357]

Locations:

Current: National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) [500309817] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: no. 6430

Credit Line: Purchased 1956

Other: Original: Orvieto [7005124] Terni province (province), Umbria (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: egg tempera and gold leaf on wood, likely poplar

	egg tempera [300015064]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint, tempera)

	gold leaf [300264831]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by form>, leaf (metal))

	panel (wood by form) [300014657]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by form or function>)

	poplar (wood) [300012363]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by composition or origin>, hardwood)

Dimensions: 82.2 x 44.5 cm

Cultures:

Sienese (preferred)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Catherine of Alexandria, Saint [901000055]
	.....((Christian characters, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Related Works:

	former architectural context was .... San Francesco [700008702] original location of altarpiece
	..........church (building); unknown Italian architects; commissioned by the Franciscan o...; consecrated in 1266 by Pope Cl...

	formerly part of same whole .... Madonna and Child and Christ the Redeemer [700008706]
	..........panel painting (painting by form); Simone Martini (Italian painter, ca. 1284-1344); ca. 1322/1324; Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Orvieto, Terni province, Umbria,...

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
St. Catherine of Alexandria	........ [VP]
	........ National Gallery of Canada [online] (2000-)
Sainte Catherine d'Alexandrie	........ [VP]
	........ National Gallery of Canada [online] (2000-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... National Gallery of Canada [online] (2000-)
	..... Comune di Orvieto [online] (2000-)