Saint Catherine Disputing with the Philosophers

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Saint Catherine Disputing with the Philosophers

Livio AgrestiLinkedCulture matchlcp-f4b7e6aff950

Date
1562/63
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk, on cream laid paper, pieced
Culture
Italy
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
223800

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This highly finished sheet is a compositional proposal, or modello , for the high altar of Santa Caterina dei Funari in Rome. Commissioned by Cardinal Federico Cesi for the left wall of the sanctuary, the painting was begun by Agresti in 1562/63 but finished by Federico Zuccaro in 1571/72. The subject is a conflation of two scenes taken from the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine. Above, Catherine asserts the tenets of Christianity before the Emperor Maxentius and 50 pagan orators assembled to argue against her; below, she is attended by an angel after the orators were converted and Maxentius had her imprisoned as punishment.

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Gift of John A. Bross in memory of Louise Smith Bross
Provenance
Sold by Michael Miller/Lucy Vivant Fine Arts, Ltd., New York, to John A. Bross, Mar. 1994; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.

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