Bella nell'aspetto ma ancor più bella nella fede: immagine e culto di Santa Caterina d'Alessandria a Perugia tra XV e XVIII secolo

• Autores: Francesco Federico Mancini
• Localización: Rivista d'arte: periodico internazionale di storia dell'arte medievale e moderna, ISSN 1122-0732, Nº. 2, 2012, págs. 105-126
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • The cult of St. Catherine of Alexandria is very popular in Perugia among female monastic communities from the middle of the Fifteenth century. The iconography of the saint is almost always accompained by the representation of emblematic figures of the Christian virtues, which, like her, are extraordinarily important. In a triptych of the school of Lorenzo Bicci, formerly in the convent of St. Agnes, now in the National Gallery of Umbria, Catherine is depicted next to the eponymous Saint. Catherine was not only praised for the exceptional intellectual gifts, but also for her desire to be united in marriage with Christ. In Raphael's Colonna altarprice, formerly in the monastery of St. Anthony of Padua, now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Alexandrian saint find counterpart in the iconographic and symbolic Saint Margaret of Cortona. On the contrary in the Benedictine monasteries of Old St. Catherine and New St. Catherine, two cycles of frescoes, the first of 1620, the second in 1718, put the key events in the life of Catherine ("Dispute, Martyrdom, Coronation") next to allegorical figures which emphasize the spiritual and moral profile of the saint.