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Saint Catherine of Alexandria, with an Angel [right panel]

Pietro Lorenzetti, probably 1340

42 cm × 88 cm

About the size of a cafe table. You would need 2 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 88 cm
Width: 42 cm
Medium: tempera on panel transferred to canvas
Kind: Painting
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
Credit: Gift of Frieda Schiff Warburg in memory of her husband, Felix M. Warburg

Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?: 42 cm × 88 cm. About the size of a cafe table. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made probably 1340. It is in the public domain, and National Gallery of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by National Gallery of Art: Gift of Frieda Schiff Warburg in memory of her husband, Felix M. Warburg.
How was it made?: Tempera on panel transferred to canvas.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

The gallery's walk hangs a selection. This work can hang in a room of its own, with five works that hang well beside it, at their real size.

One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.