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| Keywords: Lucas Cranach d.Ä. - Das Martyrium der heiligen Katarina (Ráday Library, Budapest).jpg Artwork Creator Lucas Cranach I en St Catherine is a legendary figure the beautiful educated and incalculably rich king's daughter from Alexandria According to the legend she suffered martyrdom under Emperor Maxentius c 278-312 after arguing with 50 heathen philosophers and converting them to her Christian beliefs She condemned to be broken on the wheel but an angel of the Lord destroyed the wheel and killed 4 000 of the heathen who had gathered to watch whereupon the guard and the wife of the emperor became Christians Finally Maxentius ordered the beheading of Catherine 1504 - 1509 painting lime cm 112 95 Institution Collection of the Reformed Church Budapest Ráday utca Ráday Library of the Reformed Church Budapest object history credit line Friedländer Rosenberg 1978 No FR011 accession number HCBC http //www lucascranach org/object php obj HU_HCBC_FR011 uid 8299 page 1 fol 01_Overall img HU_HCBC_FR011_2010-10_Overall tif Cranach Digital Archive PD-old-100-1923 1553 DEFAULTSORT Cranach Lucas 1; Beheading of St Catherine Budapest Religious paintings by Lucas Cranach I 16th-century paintings of Saint Catherine of Alexandria Martyrdom of Saint Catherine of Alexandria 1500s paintings from Germany Images from Cranach Digital Archive Ráday Library | ||||
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