# Stigmatization of St Catherine of Siena [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BECCAFUMI, Domenico]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on wood, 208 x 156 cm ## Commentary Stigmatization of St Catherine of Siena c. 1515 Oil on wood, 208 x 156 cm Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena This painting, arguably Beccafumi's masterpiece, depicts the stigmatization of St Catherine, a Sienese saint. Like St Francis of Assisi, Catherine miraculously receives the signs of the Cross. Catherine appears on bent knee with palms extended, her youthful face fixed upon the crucifix hanging on the wall. In this picture, light acts as a concrete protagonist. ## Related artworks - [Birth of the Virgin]() - [Fall of the Rebel Angels]() - [Fall of the Rebel Angels]() - [Head of a Youth Seen in Profile]() - [Hermathena]() - [Judgment of Zaleukos]() - [Madonna with the Infant Christ and St John the Baptist]() - [Moses and the Golden Calf]() - [Mystical Marriage of St Catherine]() - [Penelope]() - [Scipio Appeals to the Honour of his Soldiers]() - [St Jerome]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()