Description

Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Silvia Salvadori. Holy gold tempera icon. Work taken from: Simone Martini, 14th century. Technique: tempera and pure gold on wood. Reproduction of art of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Simone Martini (copyright copy by Silvia Salvadori). Painted in the same pictorial style as Simone Martini. Painting of refined beauty and quality painted by Silvia Salvadori and performed with the same artistic know-how of the school of Simone Martini using the same pictorial techniques of the Sienese school. Sienese painting gold background icon. The original painting by Simone Martini once belonging to a polyptych made for a church in Orvieto. The icon of Saint Catherine of Alexandria is currently kept in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. This Saint Catherine of Alexandria stands out for its extreme elegance, fragility and courtesy, highlighted by the hairstyle and the shape of the crown, as well as the gesture - further amplified here - of making a flap of the dress fall on the left arm. Although deprived of the most usual attributes, the book and the wheel, the young saint can only be recognized in Saint Catherine of Alexandria, by virtue of the precious clothes, the crowned head, the palm of martyrdom and the hilt of the sword that it brought about death.