The Vision of Saint Catherine of Alexandria

A kneeling woman in a pink gown and halo faces a tall blue-robed Virgin at right, while a small haloed boy stands between them beside a half-open canopied door. A tiny painted Madonna and Child appears in a niche above, all set against gilded tooling on a gold-ground panel.

Look closer: A small hanging lamp is suspended in the canopy above the central doorway.

Artist

Master of the Orcagnesque Misericordia

Date

ca. 1365–70

Medium

Tempera and gold on wood

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3811 × 2367 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975