Entombment of Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Spotted: Pinned into own Pinterest, after Google Image search, 17 November 2018

The Entombment of Saint Catherine of Alexandria is by Francisco de Zurbarán, who is sometimes referred as the Spanish Caravaggio, born in 1598 and baptized on 07 November of the same year. Exhibited at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, part of the work's gallery label reads:

Saint Catherine was a 4th-century princess of Alexandria who vowed to devote her life to God and was martyred for refusing to marry the Emperor Maxentius. After torture by fire, she was condemned to death on a spiked wheel, shown in the painting's right foreground. When Catherine touched the wheel, it miraculously fell apart, and so she was beheaded. Zurbarán depicts the deceased saint being lifted by angels who will transport her to the top of Mount Sinai, her burial place.

Saint Catherine's feast day is celebrated every 25 November in the Roman Catholic Church. Her major shrine, Saint Catherine's Monastery, or officially the Sacred Monastery of the God-Trodden Mount Sinai, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Saint Catherine's Foundation based in the United Kingdom was founded on 02 November 2007 to aid the conservation of the Monastery's architectural structures, paintings and books.