St Catharine kneels at the centre of a group of figures in the foreground in front of a landscape with a river and houses. Flashes of lightning falling from the sky have destroyed the intended instrument of martyrdom. The executioner stands behind her and pulls his sword to decapitate her.
St Catharine kneels at the centre of a group of figures in the foreground in front of a landscape with a river and houses. Flashes of lightning falling from the sky have destroyed the intended instrument of martyrdom. The executioner stands behind her and pulls his sword to decapitate her. He is accompanied by further figures some of them on horseback. Among them are thought to be various historical figures such as Friedrich the Wise and others from the circle of the Wittenberg university. Around the saint there is chaotic confusion of numerous heads, representing the 4000 heathen who according to the legend were killed after the wheel was destroyed.
[Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz; http://www.museum-digital.de/san/index.php?t=objekt&oges=16573; accessed 7 April 2015]
- Attribution
- Daniel Fritsch (Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder)
Attribution
Daniel Fritsch (Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder) | [Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz; http://www.museum-digital.de/san/index.php?t=objekt&oges=16570; accessed 7 April 2015][Schölzel 2005, 182] |
- Production date
- 1586
Production date
1586 | [dated] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 125 x 138 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 125 x 138 cm
[Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz; http://www.museum-digital.de/san/index.php?t=objekt&oges=16570; accessed 7 April 2015]
- Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia bottom right: monogram 'D.F.' and date '1586'.
Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia bottom right: monogram 'D.F.' and date '1586'.
[cda 2015]
- Inscriptions and Labels
At the bottom left:
'LC 1506'
[cda 2015]
Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
At the bottom left:
'LC 1506'
[cda 2015]
- Owner
- Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz
- Repository
- Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz, Gotisches Haus (The Gothic House)
- Location
- Wörlitz
- CDA ID
- DE_KsDW_I-189
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_KsDW_I-189/