Decorative Border with a Seraph and Saint Catherine

This fragment comes from the border decoration of a large painting in fresco – a technique that involved painting directly onto wet plaster – which showed the fall of Lucifer, the rebel angel who was cast out of heaven. It once decorated a wall of the church of the confraternity of Sant' Angelo in Arezzo. There are two other fragments in the our collection: Saint Michael and Other Angels and Decorative Border with a Kneeling Flagellant and Saints Michael and Stephen.The fragment shows two figures in decorative shapes with white borders. The creature with red wings on the left is a Seraph, a type of angelic being; on the right is Saint Catherine, identifiable by the traces of a spiked wheel (she was tortured on one). Their haloes were originally gilded but now only a tin underlayer remains. The spaces between are decorated with foliage, painted to look like stone carvings.