#saint catherine museum

[tragediambulante]

Mary with child, Saint Rose (?) and Catherine (?), Pietro Perugino, 1493-95

[illustratus]

Detail of Lucrezia Borgia as St Catherine, from Disputation of St Catherine of Alexandria

by Pinturicchio

[nadziejacher]

The Amber Room in Catherine palace, Tsarskoe Selo, Russia

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Big Pond and the Grotto Pavilion in Catherine Park, Tsarskoe Selo Museum, Saint Petersbug, RUSSIA

[7pleiades7]

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (c. 1590) by Peter Candid (Flemish (active in Florence and Munich), about 1548–1628), oil on canvas, 226 x 159.1 cm, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

[lionofchaeronea]

St. Catherine Confronting the Emperor, unknown Flemish artist, ca. 1480

[bishopsbox]

source: bishopsbox

Caravaggio: Saint Catherine of Alexandria (detail), c. 1598-1599. Thyssen Museum, Madrid.

Caravaggio: Santa Catalina de Alejandría (detalle), c. 1598-1599. Museo Thyssen, Madrid.

The painting / El cuadro

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

[gallierhouse]

In another life, Armand could’ve been

An obscure saint from the 1400s best known for a half-lost liturgy and a brutal, yet contrived, death (all good saints die this way, it’s what makes them martyrs). He might have made it in time to have Byzantine icons made of him, which I think he’d enjoy. He’d probably mean a lot to a small group of people, much like St Sebastian or St Catherine of Siena or Hildegard of Bingen. I know these are all famous saints, but they do also have extremely devout fan bases who don’t fit the usual churchgoing demographic.

A terrible experimental psychologist who violated a thousand human rights before subject protections were codified into law. He would’ve been up there with the greats, like Harry Harlow, John Watson, even the guy who ran the behavioral sink experiments. Possibly even Philip Zimbardo of Stanford Prison Experiment fame, although that was a terrible, poorly controlled experiment with no scientific validity, but it was essentially a Saw trap, so maybe he’d do something like that.

MLM employee. I don’t know if he’d be any good at getting people to buy things, but one way or another, he’d rise through those ranks and institute increasingly unhinged policies and group activities, like making it a company wide policy for all employees to do cold plunges in Diet Coke or something. He’d have the most airtight NDAs in the history of MLMs and he’d manage to make them enforceable (NDAs don’t cover illegal activities). If they weren’t enforceable he’d certainly scare everyone to believing they were. There’d be all sorts of terrible hidden clauses and implicit consent signs.

Finance guy, but not the traditional kind. He wouldn’t be a frat bro who bumps on the weekend, he’d just be literally addicted to spreadsheets and seeing numbers and graphs go up. He’d really enjoy seeing the lines go up and down. Would he be good at it? Probably not unless Louis was there to hold his hand through it because I’m not confident he understands the economy. But if he did he’d be a little terror about it. He would waste so much water and decimate so many power grids capitalizing on the crypto boom between 2018-2020.

Museum curator or employee at a natural science museum. Not because he cares about biology or anything like that, but he does like pinning butterflies and putting them in display cases, and essentially creating perfect environments for his little specimens to thrive or be perfectly preserved in. He’d spend a lot of time getting his little zombie caterpillar habitat just right. If they kept larger animals he’d probably really enjoy feeding them, and his museum would engage in live feeding, much to the chagrin of animal rights activists. When addressing the criticism during a press conference he’d pull out a rat and snap its neck (this is the preferred humane method to kill rats for reptile consumption) and ask everyone if they want him to do that while staring at the journalists making unblinking eye contact, or if they prefer the freezer method.

[vulturesouls]

The Virgin in a Cloud of Angels, with Saints Barbara and Catherine, Paris, France, about 1500

From the Poncher Hours, Master of the Chronique scandaleuse (French, active about 1493 - 1510), illuminator

Getty Museum

[historyofromanovs]

do you know where the first few of the romanovs resided before all of the palaces were built and if so, are any of them remaining? do we know what they look like?

I'm afraid very little from the earliest days of the Romanov dynasty had survived the ravages of time. By the time of Nicholas II, many early residences had already been either destroyed or replaced by the modern and elegant palaces we see today. Here's a few that survived.

The Cabin of Peter the Great May 1703

Built during the founding of the city of Saint Petersburg, the log cabin was the first St. Petersburg "palace" of Tsar Peter the Great. The small wooden house was constructed in just three days, by soldiers of the Semyonovskiy Regiment. 

At that time, the new St. Petersburg was described as "a heap of villages linked together, like some plantation in the West Indies".

The Cabin was boarded up and camouflaged during the Second World War. It was the first St. Petersburg museum to reopen in September 1944, after the end of the Siege of Leningrad. 

This cabin must have appeared as a huge downgrade after the wooden palace of Tsar Alexei!

The Wooden Palace of Tsar Alexei Romanov 1667

The recreation of an authentic mid-17th century Romanov residence was built recently in 2010. The Palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, also known as the Wooden Palace of Tsar Alexei, is a large wooden palace in Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, Russia.

The original was built in 1667 without using any fasten materials, nails or hooks. The wooden palace, famed for its fanciful, fairytale roofs, was a summer residence for Russian tsars before St. Petersburg was constructed. 

The palace was divided into male and female halves, with the Tsar and Tsarevitches towers and chambers in the male half and the Tsarina's towers in the female half. 

The palace's interior featured rich decorations, including carving, painting, gilding, and ceramic tiles, as well as rectangular and round stoves, weathercocks, and windows and porches. 

Foreigners referred to this huge maze of intricate corridors and 250 rooms, as 'an Eighth Wonder of the World'. Although basically only a summer palace, it was the favorite residence of Tsar Alexei I.

The future Empress Elizabeth Petrovna was born in the palace in 1709, and Tsar Peter the Great spent part of his youth here.

Upon the departure of the court for the swamps of St. Petersburg, the palace fell into disrepair, so that Catherine the Great refused to make it her Moscow residence. On her orders the wooden palace was demolished in 1768, but thankfully, the detailed plans of the palace had survived.

Summer Palace of Peter the Great

1714

One of the earliest imperial residences I can think of that still exists today is the modest Summer Palace of Peter the Great, which is located on an island near the Peter and Paul Fortress, the burial place of the Romanovs.

The palace was built between 1710 and 1714, a few years before the proclamation of the Russian Empire. By the time of Tsar Nicholas II's reign at the end of the 19th century, it became vacant.

During the Second World War, both the Summer Palace and Summer Gardens were badly damaged by a German bombing raid. The building was repaired, however, and the layout remains unchanged from the original.

Above: The palace as depicted in 1809. Below: The residence today.

Monplaisir Palace in Peterhof 1714-1716

There is another residence owned by Peter the Great that is still standing today. And that is the Monplaisir Palace in Peterhof.

The following painting depicts the formidable Tsar and his son and heir Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, who has been accused of preparing to seize power, in the interior of the Monplaisir Palace. Before pronouncing sentence, Peter I gazes into his son's eyes, still hoping to discern signs of remorse.

Above: The Parade Hall of Monplaisir Palace today.

[my-sacred-art]

Jennifer Connely (born Dec. 12, 1970)

Saint Catherine and the Demons, circa 1500. Unknown artist. National Museum of Poland, Warsaw.

[random-brushstrokes]

Joseph-Noël Sylvestre - Danton embrasse le cadavre de sa femme (1893)

On 10 February 1793, while Danton was on mission in Belgium, Antoinette Gabrielle Danton died in Paris giving birth to her fourth son, who did not live. On his return to Paris on 17 February 1793, Georges Danton found an artiste from the faubourg Saint-Marceau, the sculptor Claude André Deseine, who was deaf and mute, and took him (in exchange for a bundle of assignats, to the Sainte-Catherine cemetery where his wife was buried.

In the middle of the night, with the cemetery caretaker's aide, Georges Danton had his wife Antoinette Gabrielle disinterred and her coffin opened, covering her with kisses and imploring her to pardon him for his many sexual indiscretions, and had a death mask taken. The mortuary bust of Antoinette Gabrielle Danton, which caused a scandal when first exhibited in the year of her death, is now visible in the museum in Troyes in Aube. (source)

[catholicpriestmedia]

"Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Pray for Us!"

📷 Saint Catherine of Alexandria (circa 1475–1525) / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA. #CanvaPro #Catholic_Priest #CatholicPriestMedia #SaintoftheDay

[tino-i-guess]

I came across this painting on tiktok earlier and tracked it down and I can't stop staring. I don't know why it's so captivating, I'm usually not even this into art. I just want to keep staring at it. There's two versions of the painting I could find, one with really vibrant colours and the other tuned down but both are gorgeous.

The painting, "Pallas Athene" is by Rembrandt and one of his pupils from circa 1657. It's gorgeous and I want it in my house immediately. It belongs to the collection of Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. It's an oil painting, the colours are so gorgeous to me. Looking at the painting closer, it radiates with Rembrandt's love of ancient weapons.

The background of the painting is relatively interesting. There's theories that the pose and appearance of the goddess is based off of Rembrandt's son, Titus Van Rijn. If I look at her face closer, I can definitely see the androgyne. Catherine II of Russia, ever the woman of taste, bought it from Paris and later gave it to her lover before being transferred to a museum and then bought through an art dealer by the current owner.

There's debate on the theme, date and origin of the artwork. Although nowadays, it's pretty much agreed it's by Rembrandt and one of his students. I think that might by part of why I like it. The mix of student and master levels of art into one. It's so. Gods. I can't describe it. There's two main theories I could find after my surface level search. One is that it was made to celebrate Saint Luke. The other that it was part of a trio of paintings, however looking at them (Juno and Venus), I don't think that's the case. The style is too different. I won't offer an art analysis since I'm not good at those things but there are some facisnating ones. They all definitely agree on the androgyne of the figure, which is further proven by another debated aspect of the painting: the name. Not everybody agrees that it is Athena in the painting, some think it is Alexander The Great or Titus himself. Alternative names for the painting include "Portrait of Alexander in the Armor of Pallas", "Mars", "Portrait of Titus" and "Young Warrior".

I might rant about this painting more but gods, I think it's one of my new favourites.

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[art-portraits]

Smolny Girls

Artist: Dmitry Levitzky (Russian, 1735–1822)

Title: Portrait of Ekaterina Khruschova and Ekaterina Khovanskaya

Date: 1773

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Description

Dmitry Levitsky’s Smolny Girls was done for the Imperial Educational Society for Noble Girls (Smolny Institute). Founded at the initiative of Ivan Betskoi by Catherine the Great in 1764, the institute was housed at the Smolny Novodevichy Convent of the Resurrection in St Petersburg. Ivan Betskoi commissioned Levitsky to paint the portraits for the Smolny Institute. Ekaterina Khruschova (left) and Ekaterina Khovanskaya (right) are depicted performing a pastoral scene at the Smolny Institute.