St. Catherine of Alexandria

This is one of the Spanish Renaissance’s most emblematic depictions of a female figure and the best known of Yáñez de la Almedina’s works.

Saint Catherine of Alexandria was a young, wise and virtuous princess who loved the Lord. That beautiful young woman reject marrying emperor Maximilian and was therefore subjected to a long martyrdom that included the amputation of both breasts, torture on the wheel, and decapitation.