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The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Siena  1482

by Giovanni di Paolo

These three panels belong to a series from the base (predella) of a large altarpiece and constituted the first extensive narrative cycle of Catherine of Siena, a Sienese mystic as well as minister to the poor and plague-stricken. They were commissioned after her canonization in 1460 and are based on the biography written by her confessor, Raymond of Capua. Among the most n...
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Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art