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Saints Catherine and Hippolytus were both martyred by having their limbs broken as they refused to convert to paganism, which would have deprived them of salvation and confined them to a spiritual prison. The fractured slab of masonry with the inscription was added later to emphasise the connection between the two saints. The inscription translates as: ‘They chose to be dismembered rather than be sundered by chains everlasting.’
The painting came from the church of S. Eusebio in Onzato, a hamlet of Flero, south of Brescia. The church, which was originally part of a small convent, was ceded to Conte Tomaso Caprioli, who may have commissioned this altarpiece shortly before his death in 1538.
Title
The Virgin with the Infant Christ, seated upon Clouds above Saint Hippolytus and Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Date
about 1540
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 235 x W 142.5 cm
Accession number
NG1165
Acquisition method
Presented by Francis Palgrave, 1884
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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