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"title": "Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy",
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"description": "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",
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"did_you_know": "Giovanni di Paolo painted both large altarpieces and small manuscripts.",
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"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.",
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"citation": "Ramboux, Johann Anton. Catalog der nachgelassenen Kunst-Sammlungen des Herrn Johann Anton Ramboux Versteigerung zu C\u00f6ln am 23. Mai 1867 durch J. M. Heberle (H. Lempertz). 1867.",
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"citation": "Stechow, Wolfgang. \"Cleveland's Golden Anniversary Acquisitions.\" Artnews 65, no. 5 (September 1966): 30-64.",
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"citation": "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).",
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"citation": "Christiansen, Keith, Laurence B. Kanter, and Carl Brandon Strehlke. Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988.",
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"citation": "Boskovits, Miklo\u0301s, Serena Padovani, and Irene Martin. Early Italian Painting: 1290-1470. London: Published by Philip Wilson Publishers for Sotheby's Publications, 1990.",
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"citation": "Raymond, and Josef Schwarzbauer. 33 Jahre fu\u0308r Christus: die Legenda Maior ; das Leben der hl. Caterina von Siena. Kleinhain: Verlag St. Josef, 2006.",
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"citation": "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",
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