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GENTILESCHI, Artemisia: St Catherine of Alexandria

🖼 St Catherine of Alexandria, c. 1620
Oil on canvas
77 × 62 cm
Florence, Italy

Golden light illuminates St. Catherine amid swirling drapery and broken torture wheel, her gaze heavenward in spiritual ecstasy rendered through dramatic chiaroscuro. Gentileschi's visceral interpretation transforms martyrdom into intimate spiritual triumph, reflecting her own resilience as a woman artist navigating seventeenth-century Italy.

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