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Catherine of Alexandria is a tempera painting created by Ieremias Palladas.  Palladas was a monk associated with Saint Catherine's sacred monastery in Egypt also known as Mount Sinai.  He was a painter and teacher.  His nephew became the Patriarch of Alexandria.  His name was Gerasimos Palladas.  Ieremias was a Sinaitic monk because of his association with Saint Catherine's monastery on Mount Sinai.  The monastery encloses the site where it is assumed by Christians that Moses saw the burning bush.  Ieremias was one of the most influential figures of his time. The Patriarch of Jerusalem Nectarius wrote about the painter in his archives.Saint Catherine was an educated woman and princess from Alexandria, Egypt.  She was alive from 287 to 305.  She died seven years before Constantine recognized the new Christian religion.  She was tortured by Emperor Maxentius because she converted hundreds of people to the new Christian faith.  She was almost put to death by a spiked wheel.  She is often depicted in art as an educated woman with a spiked wheel. Palladas finished one of the most influential paintings of the figure for the iconostasis of Saint Catherine's Monastery in Mount Sinai, Egypt. It became the prototype for Catherine of Alexandria.  During the same period, another Sinaitic monk named Theocharis Silvestros painted several versions of the prototype.  Countless artists copied the work namely, Emmanuel Lambardos, Victor and Philotheos Skoufos.
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