Publisher/Manufacturer: Arundel Society 1881 Colour lithograph (chromolithograph) on white wove paper mounted on white card
587 x 549 mm. Gift?: Possibly Captain E.H.Verney, R.N., F.R.A.S., Rhianva, Bangor Between 1899 and 1911?
A chromolithograph by Storch & Kramer after a drawing by Fattorini of a fresco attributed to Pacchiarotto. The fresco is in the Oratory of St Catherine at Siena
Religious arch-shaped fresco with St Catherine (1347-1380), mourners / pilgrims and the body of Saint Agnes of Montepulciano (1268-1317). In the foreground is an arch with a single band of coffering. On the left are ten figures in Renaissance costume including a bearded man, two kneeling women, a woman praying and the nun Eugenia (niece of St Agnes) holding beads. In the centre is the body of St Agnes on a draped bed and Saint Catherine, with a halo and stigmata on her palms, who holds a lily in her right hand. She leans over to kiss the foot of St Agnes which is magically raised. On the right are ten figures expressing grief. In the background is the classical architecture of a church interior, an altar with a cross and fragmented light? descending from a window in a dome
