Predella Panel from an Altarpiece: St. Catherine of Siena Invested with the Dominican Habit
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Dominic, Augustine and Francis hold out habits, and Catherine, kneeling at an altar, reaches for Dominic's. Raymond of Capua, her biographer, puts the habit first in a dream: Dominic held in one hand a white lily that burned and was not consumed, and in the other the black and white habit of his tertiaries, promising she would wear it. Cleveland says to know him by his lilies.
Awake, it was harder. The Sisters of Penance were widows and did not want a girl. The panel keeps the dream's terms: the habit held out, and the lily in Dominic's hand.
Sources: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 'Predella Panel from an Altarpiece: St. Catherine of Siena Invested with the Dominican Habit', Giovanni di Paolo, 1966.2 · Edmund G. Gardner, Saint Catherine of Siena: A Study in the Religion, Literature and History of the Fourteenth Century in Italy (London: Dent, 1907), 10-12, citing Raymond of Capua, Legenda maior I.iv §§49-50 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'Saint Catherine of Siena Beseeching Christ to Resuscitate Her Mother', Giovanni di Paolo, catalogue entry
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