otsisto wrote:
http://www.artsmia.org/viewer/detail.php?v=12&id=547
At a first glance it looks as if St. Catherine is wearing a sideless.
Click on the picture to get to the zoom.
Can someone tell me what she is actually wearing?
She is wearing a fantasy creation that combines the most recognizable elements
of the sideless surcote (which was traditionally used for St. Catherine but is
by now a century out of date) with a hodgepodge of elements of more recent
styles. The dress most definitely never existed.
This one will have to go into my collection of "weird Catherines." I have a
lot of those.
The same artist did multiple Catherines. Compare the Minneapolis example with
this one at the Philadelphia Museum of art, likely painted a decade or more
earlier:
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/102091.html?mulR=26001
He did a lot of other paintings of female saints, too -- it was a specialty of
his, apparently -- and I'm sure he mixed and matched elements repeatedly.
--Robin
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