id: 142559 accession number: 1966.3 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.3 updated: 2023-03-10 19:43:03.850000 St. Catherine of Siena and the Beggar, 1460s. Giovanni di Paolo (Italian, c. 1403–1482). Tempera and gold on wood; framed: 35.6 x 35.7 x 4.5 cm (14 x 14 1/16 x 1 3/4 in.); unframed: 28.7 x 28.9 cm (11 5/16 x 11 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1966.3 title: St. Catherine of Siena and the Beggar title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1460s creation date earliest: 1460 creation date latest: 1469 current location: 117A Italian Renaissance creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust copyright: --- culture: Italy, Siena, 15th century technique: tempera and gold on wood department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Medieval Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Giovanni di Paolo (Italian, c. 1403–1482) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 35.6 x 35.7 x 4.5 cm (14 x 14 1/16 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 28.7 x 28.9 cm (11 5/16 x 11 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Lust und Verlust: Kölner Sammler zwischen Trikolore und Preussenadler (Joy and Loss: Cologne Collectors between the tricolore and the Prussian eagle) opening date: 1995-10-24T04:00:00 Lust und Verlust: Kölner Sammler zwischen Trikolore und Preussenadler (Joy and Loss: Cologne Collectors between the tricolore and the Prussian eagle). Josef Haubrich Kunsthalle (October 24, 1995-January 14, 1996). title: Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy opening date: 2014-10-31T00:00:00 Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy. Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (organizer) (October 31, 2014-January 25, 2015). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE S. Maria della Scala, Siena. J date: footnotes: citations: Johann Anton Ramboux, Cologne (bought in Siena, c. 1838, Cologne sale 1867). date: footnotes: citations: Hohenzollern family, Sigmaringen (sold 1920). date: footnotes: citations: Adolphe Stoclet, Brussels (1921, sold 1966). date: footnotes: citations: (R. Heinemann, New York, 1966). date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1966- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Giovanni di Paolo painted both large altarpieces and small manuscripts. digital description: wall description: Saint Catherine (1347-1380) was the daughter of a prosperous Sienese cloth dyer. At the age of six, she saw a vision of Christ and thereafter dedicated herself to chastity, penance, and good works. She became much beloved in Siena for selflessly caring for victims of the Black Death. This panel, with 1966.2, was once part of a predella (or pedestal) of a large altarpiece painted for the Hospital Church of Siena. The main scene of this altarpiece, showing the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (now preserved in Siena) was ordered by the Pork Butchers Guild (the Pizzicaiuoli) in 1447. The predella was added later when Catherine was canonized in 1461. In the first panel, she kneels before an altar and reaches up to choose from the monastic garments offered by Saints Dominic, Augustine, and Francis, all founders of religious orders. Catherine takes the habit of Saint Dominic, which she wore as the founder of the Sisters of Penance. The second panel shows, at the right, Saint Catherine giving her cloak to a beggar. The beggar was really Christ in disguise, and at the left returns the cloak to her. For this act of charity, the cloak perpetually protected its wearer from the cold. --- RELATED WORKS id: 142384 Predella Panel from an Altarpiece: St. Catherine of Siena Invested with the Dominican Habit, 1460s. Giovanni di Paolo (Italian, c. 1403-1482). Tempera and gold on wood panel; framed: 35.6 x 29.5 x 4.5 cm (14 x 11 5/8 x 1 3/4 in.); unframed: 28.9 x 23 cm (11 3/8 x 9 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1966.2 relationship: --- CITATIONS Ramboux, Johann Anton. Catalog der nachgelassenen Kunst-Sammlungen des Herrn Johann Anton Ramboux Versteigerung zu Cöln am 23. Mai 1867 durch J. M. Heberle (H. Lempertz). 1867. page number: lots 113, 115 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 59 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n83 Cleveland Museum of Art, “Golden Anniversary Acquisition,” 1966, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr1424 Stechow, Wolfgang. "Cleveland's Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." Artnews 65, no. 5 (September 1966): 30-64. page number: Mentioned: p. 34; Reproduced: p. 37 url: De Fernandez-Gimenez, Elizabeth Ourusoff. "Giovanni Di Paolo: The Life of St. Catherine of Siena." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 4 (1967). page number: pp. 103-10 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152153 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 59 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n83 Cleveland Museum of Art, Louise d' Argencourt, and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: pp. 104-110 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 67 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n87 Christiansen, Keith, Laurence B. Kanter, and Carl Brandon Strehlke. Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988. page number: pp. 224-228 url: Boskovits, Miklós, Serena Padovani, and Irene Martin. Early Italian Painting: 1290-1470. London: Published by Philip Wilson Publishers for Sotheby's Publications, 1990. page number: pp. 104-112 url: Freuler, Gaudenz. "Künder der wunderbaren Dinge": frühe italienische Malerei aus Sammlungen in der Schweiz und in Liechtenstein. Lugano-Castagnola: Fondazione Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1991. page number: p. 96 url: Krischel, Roland, Susanne Blöcker, Frank Günter Zehnder, and Hiltrud Kier. Lust und Verlust: Kolner Sammler zwischen Trikolore und Preussenadler. Koln: Wienand, 1995. page number: p. CXII-III url: Warr, Cordelia. "Clothing, Charity, Salvatio and Visionary Experience in Fifteenth-Century Siena." Art History: Journal of the Association of Art Historians. 27:2, April 2004 page number: Fig. 1.1, p. 188 url: Raymond, and Josef Schwarzbauer. 33 Jahre für Christus: die Legenda Maior ; das Leben der hl. Caterina von Siena. Kleinhain: Verlag St. Josef, 2006. page number: p. 97 url: Genovese, Valeria E. "Postille messinesi: il golgota di Gualtieri Sicamino e il dono per Polidoro da Caravaggio." In Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa: Classe di Lettere e Filosofia. Serie 5. Pisa: Edizioni Della Normale., 2011 page number: Pg 616, fig 25 url: Genovese, Veleria E. "Postille Messinesi: Il Golgota di Gualtieri Sicamino e il dono per Polidoro da Caravaggio" Annali della Scuola normale superiore di Pisa, Classe di lettere e filosofia. Pisa: La Scuola, (Serie 5 2011, 3/2) page number: p. 616 url: Kennedy, Trinita, Donal Cooper, Holly Flora, Trinita Kennedy, Amy Neff, and Janet Robson. Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy. 2014. page number: cat. no. 42b, p. 186 url: Dwyer Modestini, Dianne, and Mario Modestini. Masterpieces: Based on a Manuscript by Mario Modestini. Fiesole (Firenze) : Cadmo, 2018. page number: Mentioned: p. 323-324 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.3/1966.3_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.3/1966.3_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.3/1966.3_full.tif