The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine of Alexandria (El martirio de santa Catalina de Alejandría)

Spanish Colonial Art
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The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine of Alexandria (El martirio de santa Catalina de Alejandría)

Mexico, 1642
Paintings
Oil on copper
Unframed: 33 7/16 × 25 3/8 in. (85 × 64.5 cm); framed: 44 3/4 × 37 × 4 in. (113.67 × 93.98 × 10.16 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by the Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art Deaccession Fund (M.2018.178)
Latin American Art
Not currently on public view

Provenance

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Galerías La Granja, Mexico City; Manuel Santaella, Caracas, c. 1943; by inheritance to his daughter Cristina Santaella Sequeira, Caracas; by inheritance to her son José Manuel Sequeira Santaella, Caracas; Manuel Piñanes, Madrid, 2018; LACMA, 2018.
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This painting depicts a key episode in the life of Saint Catherine of Alexandria.

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This painting depicts a key episode in the life of Saint Catherine of Alexandria. In the early fourth century, she was condemned to death on a spiked breaking wheel after defying the pagan emperor Maxentius. Because of her erudition, Catherine was named patron saint of Mexico’s university at the end of the sixteenth century, and her willingness to espouse Christianity turned her into a religious exemplum. Baltasar de Echave Ibía descended from a prominent dynasty of Spanish painters; his spirited composition, with fiery lightning bolts darting from the sky, was considered a novelty in his day.


From exhibition Archive of the World, 2022 (for more information see the catalogue entry by Ilona Katzew in the accompanying publication, cat. no. 2, pp. 35–37)
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Bibliography

  • Katzew, Ilona, ed. Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800: Highlights from LACMA’s Collection. Exh. Cat. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books/D.A.P., 2022.

Exhibition history

  • Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800 Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 12, 2022 - October 30, 2022
  • Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800 Nashville, TN, Frist Art Museum, October 20, 2023 - January 28, 2024