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Catarina de Áustria

D. Catarina de Áustria and St. Catherine of Alexandria

Portrait in oil on wood of Queen Catherine with her namesake saint, St. Catherine of Alexandria. The painting by the workshop of Cristovão Lopes after 1564 was owned by the Convent of Esperança, where Queen Catherine had an apartment. Photo by Valerie Hegstrom.