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Guillem Seguer
Saint Catherine (c. 1350)
limestone
119.0 × 40.5 × 30.0 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr Tomas Harris, 1952
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Saint Catherine
(c. 1350)
Medium
limestone
Measurements
119.0 × 40.5 × 30.0 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr Tomas Harris, 1952
Gallery location
14th - 16th Century Gallery - Painting & Decorative Arts
Level 1, NGV International
About this work
Jaume Cascalls was a painter, architect and one of the most important and influential sculptors working in Catalonia in the fourteenth century. Synthesising contemporary French and Italian styles, Cascalls introduced a distinctively graceful Gothic manner to Spanish art. This sculpture shows St Catherine of Alexandria holding her attribute, the wheel upon which she was to be broken, but instead broke at her touch, with a palm leaf to indicate her martyrdom. The heavily corrugated palm frond is characteristic of Cascalls’s painted and sculpted martyrs. The statue comes from the twelfth-century Cistercian convent of Santa Maria de Vallbona, and probably once occupied a niche. Its surface shows traces of original paint and gilding.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Catalan, Spain
Accession Number
1262-D4
Department
International Sculpture
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