The Adoration of the Shepherds with Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Chigoli is a painter with considerable intellectual achievement and is a great scientist and a friend of astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), a leading artist of Florence in the late 16th century. This altarpiece was drawn at the peak of Cigoli's career and according to Barocci and Titian's work a new emotional warmth and color emphasis is drawn. Details such as still life around the children of Christ and characters of the right country are brought directly from nature. Cigoli's work emphasizes the research of nature and the works of the great masters of the Renaissance era.

According to tradition, St. Catherine of Alexandria, also known as St. Catherine's ring and the great martyr saint Catherine, was a Christian saint and virgin dead in the hands of pagan emperor Maxentius in the early 4th century. According to her biography, she became a Christian at the age of 14 and converted hundreds of people to Christianity. Joan of Ark decided she was one of the saints that appeared to her by her girlfriend who passed over a hundred and one hundred years from her martyrdom and advised her.

Women from Susanna or Shoshana, St. Apollonia, St. Roche or Rocco, Madonna, St. Francis, St. Catherine, Pon Pirete, St. Pierre, St. Paul, St. Bernabe, Samaria, Susanna, Elder, St. Cecilia, Mary Magdalene, Marriage of the Virgin Mary, worship of the shepherd, introduction of Our Lady at St. Paul, the introduction of Our Lady at the temple, Encounter of David and Abigail, House of Simon of Christ Lissey of France, St. Lawrence

She is also known as St. Catherine and the ring of the great martyr Saint Catherine. He was born in Alexandria, Egypt around 282 AD, and died in the same city around 305 AD. She was a virgin and martyr who was known for her intelligence, Egyptian Christian saint, early 4th century Christian society, considered one of the great philosophers, scholars and poets at the time. She was a pagan, then she turned into a Christian. Roman emperor Maxi Mouse ordered her to torture and kill her with broken wheels, but she had to be beheaded. Now, in her picture the wheel often appears behind her. Her devotion spread widely in Europe, and her feast was celebrated on November 25th. The Catholic Church puts her in 14 sacred assistants.