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  2. Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria

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    The Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria, also known simply as Holy Conversation, is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Titian. It is one of his several versions of the canonical image of the Madonna and Child. Executed in oil on canvas, it was painted around 1560, at the height of Titian's career.

  3. Catherine of Alexandria - Wikipedia

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    St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota was founded in 1905 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and named for St. Catherine of Alexandria. [53] University of Saint Katherine in San Marcos, California is the first Eastern Orthodox Christian university in the United States and the English-speaking world.

  4. Sœur de La Chapelle - Wikipedia

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    The play itself centers on the story of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, who according to tradition was martyred at the age of 18 or so during the reign of the later Roman emperor Maxentius (c. 278–312) after she rebuked the emperor for his persecution of Christians. [3]

  5. Saint Catherine of Alexandria (Raphael) - Wikipedia

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    In the painting, Catherine of Alexandria is looking upward in ecstasy and leaning on a wheel, an allusion to the breaking wheel (or Catherine wheel) of her martyrdom. [ 1 ] It was painted c. 1507–1509 , towards the end of Raphael's sojourn in Florence, and shows the young artist in a transitional phase.

  6. Category:Catherine of Alexandria - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to Catherine of Alexandria, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early fourth century at the hands of the emperor Maxentius.According to her hagiography, she was both a princess and a noted scholar who became a Christian around the age of 14, converted hundreds of people to Christianity and was martyred around the age of eighteen.

  7. Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint James

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    Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint James is an oil-on-canvas painting by Lorenzo Lotto, created c. 1527, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. [1] [2] To the right are the two martyr saints Catherine of Alexandria and James the Great.

  8. Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine (Memling) - Wikipedia

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    The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine (or Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara) is a c. 1480 oil-on-oak painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Hans Memling, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Virgin Mary sits on a throne in a garden holding the Child Jesus in her lap.

  9. The Crowning of Saint Catherine - Wikipedia

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    The Crowning of Saint Catherine (1631) by Peter Paul Rubens. The Crowning of Saint Catherine is an oil-on-canvas painting by Peter Paul Rubens, now in the Toledo Museum of Art. It portrays Catherine of Alexandria, an early-4th-century martyr, being crowned by the infant Jesus, sitting on his mother's lap.