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To show off his skill with foreshortening – a visual trick of distorting objects so that they seem to recede into the picture – Crivelli has rotated her wheel so it is seen sideways on, with its spokes receding at a sharp angle. We can see her shadow and that of her wheel on the wall behind her. Her dress fall in heavy folds around her feet, and the toe of her shoe peeps out over the edge of marble parapet, as if she is breaking out of the flat panel into our space. To her left a fly seems to walk across the surface of the painting, casting a shadow on its surface.
Title
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Date
probably about 1491-4
Medium
Tempera on lime
Measurements
H 38 x W 19 cm
Accession number
NG907.1
Acquisition method
Bought, 1874
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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