St. Catherine on the Wheel
1849
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1849
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
St. Catherine on the Wheel is a 1849 by Davide Testi, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows a winged woman standing against a dark background. She has curly hair, bare shoulders, and one arm raised as if holding something. Her other arm rests on a wheel with sharp spokes behind her. The fabric around her waist is tied with a bow, and her feet are bare. The title at the bottom says this is *St. Catherine on the Wheel*—a story about a saint tortured on a spiked wheel. The artist, Davide Testi, copied it from a famous painting by Michelangelo. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more prints like this.
The print depicts Saint Catherine positioned on a spiked breaking wheel, rendered after a composition associated with Michelangelo. Executed in 1849 by Davide Testi in Florence, the work is inscribed with the names of the designer Filippo Calendi and the engraver Davide Testi. Printed on paper, it reproduces a figure from an earlier design linked to Michelangelo’s circle.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Davide Testi spent years tracing saints and sinners in the margins of old print books, ink-stained fingers and a magnifying glass always in hand.
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