Tiziano Vecelli - Saint Catherine of Alexandria at Prayer 1567
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Saint Catherine of Alexandria at Prayer 1567
119x100cm oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, United States
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From Museum of Fine Arts Boston:
Titian, the greatest Venetian painter of the sixteenth century, brought new depth of feeling and an unrivaled sense of coloring to the Renaissance mastery of the rational depiction of space. In this restrained and meditative work, painted when Titian was near eighty, Saint Catherine is surrounded by the attributes that identify her: a piece of the spiked wheel, broken by divine intervention, on which she was to be executed; the sword with which she was later decapitated; and the palm, symbol of martyrdom. The subtleties of somber color, typical of Titian’s late work, were applied with broad brushstrokes onto coarse-weave canvas.