ABSTRACT
Representations of Catherine of Siena’s stigmatization raised questions about the relationship between seeing and knowing. Catherine’s stigmata were challenging. They did not appear visibly on her body, were the result of a series of separate events, and, it could be argued, were transient. The episodes associated with the stigmatization were detailed in Raymond of Capua’s Legenda Maior, whilst in the Libellus de Supplemento Tommaso Caffarini discussed its representation. In this chapter, visual examples in the two extant illustrated manuscripts of the Libellus, together with Giovanni di Paolo’s painting of the Stigmatization, are used as a basis from which to consider problems surrounding the depiction of Catherine’s stigmatization and the ways in which these were articulated in the fifteenth century.
