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Paolo Zacchia
(1584 - 1659)
Sainte Catherine d'Alexandrie
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Agraci
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
full-length portrait
wheel
sainte Catherine d'Alexandrie
Italian Renaissance
front view
on one's elbows
figure study
niche (architecture)
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About the artwork
Title:
Sainte Catherine d'Alexandrie
Periods:
renaissance
16th century
XVIth century
Techniques:
poplar (wood)
oil painting
Dimensions:
168 x 101
Inventory number:
MI 604
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Paolo Zacchia
Also known as:
Paul Zacchias
Born:
1584
Dead:
1659
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Paul Zacchias
(1584-1659) was an Italian physician, teacher of medical science, medio-legal jurist, philosopher, and poet. He is said to have been personal physician to Pope Innocentius X and Pope Alexander VII. Zacchias was also legal adviser to the Rota Romana, the highest Papal court of appeals, and head of the medical system in the Papal States. His most well known book,
Quaestiones medico-legales
(1621-1651) established legal medicine as a topic of study. Zacchias was at the cutting edge of…
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