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| Keywords: German - Scenes from the Life of Saint Catherine of Alexandria - Walters 372638.jpg This three-part panel was originally part of a large altarpiece whose central image probably represented Saint Catherine with the wheel of her martyrdom The left-hand panel depicts her vision of the Madonna and Child the Christ Child did not find Catherine worthy because she wasn't baptised and refused to look at her The middle scene illustrates her baptism The right-hand panel presents her second vision of the Madonna and Child as a baptised Christian she is now worthy in Christ's eyes and she is joined to him in a mystic marriage The delicate figures reflect the continuing influence of the International Gothic style Swabian painters of the following generation developed a more harsly realistic style Other fragments from the same altarpiece are now in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt ca 1430 1450 Renaissance oil on panel framed cm 62 8 162 5 5 accession number 37 2638 22293 Mortimer Brandt Baltimore by purchase Walters Art Museum Gift of Mr and Mrs Mortimer Brandt 1988 place of origin Swabia Germany Walters Art Museum license 2D Medieval art in the Walters Art Museum Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum German art in the Walters Art Museum Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Madonna and Child Mystic marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria Paintings of Saint Catherine of Alexandria | ||||
