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"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"<P>Although no halo is shown, this theatrically expressive figure holds a palm branch, indicating her status as a martyr saint. The vaguely defined object she leans against could possibly be a wheel, the principal instrument of torture of Saint Catherine of Alexandria (287–305 a.d.). This luminous sketch is one of a handful of drawings associated with Bernardo Cavallino, the leading artist of mid-seventeenth century Naples, whose career was cut short by the plague that devastated the city in 1656. Cavallino’s tender and portraitlike depictions of female saints were popular with private collectors in and beyond Naples.</P>\r\n<P>&nbsp;</P>","remarks":"K1-3_Nov2013.pdf"}],"datebegin":1640,"sortnumber":"1947  132x","published_date":"2026-02-11 07:41:56.610227","objectid":5999,"dimensions":"39 x 26.8 cm (15 3/8 x 10 9/16 in.)","on_view":false}