# St. Catherine of Siena and the Beggar, in Giovanni di Paolo

Giovanni di Paolo painted this in the 1460s, aged about 62. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> 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.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1460s
- Medium: tempera and gold on wood
- Dimensions: Framed: 35.6 x 35.7 x 4.5 cm (14 x 14 1/16 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 28.7 x 28.9 cm (11 5/16 x 11 3/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.3
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Giovanni di Paolo](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/giovanni-di-paolo), Italian, 1398–1482

Giovanni di Paolo spent his long career in Siena, where he was one of the city’s leading painters through the fifteenth century.

4 works in the collection.

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