The Martyrdom of St Catherine
by PROVOST, Jan, Oil on panel, 94 x 68 cm
Jan Provost’s Martyrdom of Saint Catherine - the pendant of St Catherine Disputing with the Emperor and the Fifty Philosophers in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam - is a colourful mixture of tradition and innovation. Provost was a painter, cartographer and architect, who met Albrecht D�rer in Antwerp in 1520.