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Predella Panel from an Altarpiece: St. Catherine of Siena Invested with the Dominican Habit
1460s · tempera and gold on wood panel · The Cleveland Museum of Art
For Saint Catherine of Siena · 29 April
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Three saints lean out of the gold and hold out their habits, and Saint Catherine, kneeling in white beside an altar, reaches up. The Cleveland Museum of Art names them, Dominic, Augustine and Francis, and says she takes Dominic's; know him, Cleveland adds, by his lilies. Raymond of Capua, her biographer, puts the habit first in a dream, as Edmund Gardner retells it: Dominic held a white lily that burned and was not consumed, and offered the black and white habit of the Sisters of Penance. Awake it was harder; the sisters were widows and did not want a maiden. Giovanni di Paolo keeps the lily in Dominic's hand.
Sources: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 'Predella Panel from an Altarpiece: St. Catherine of Siena Invested with the Dominican Habit', Giovanni di Paolo, 1966.2 · Edmund G. Gardner, Saint Catherine of Siena: A Study in the Religion, Literature and History of the Fourteenth Century in Italy (London: Dent, 1907), 10-12, citing Raymond of Capua, Legenda maior I.iv §§49-50 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'Saint Catherine of Siena Beseeching Christ to Resuscitate Her Mother', Giovanni di Paolo, catalogue entry