Alexandria Collection (page 4)

Madonna and Child with Saints Catherine and Christopher, 15th century. Artist: Matteo di Giovanni
Madonna and Child with Saints Catherine and Christopher, 15th century. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Saint Catherine of Alexandria, c1507. Artist: Raphael
Saint Catherine of Alexandria, c1507. Saint Catherine is shown leaning on the wheel upon which she was condemned to die but which miraculously broke

The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, 1505-1510. Artist: Gerard David
The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, 1505-1510. Found in the collection of the National Gallery, London

Pompeys Pillar, Alexandria, Egypt. Probably the best-known ancient monument still standing in Alexandria, the pilliar actually has nothing to do with Pompey but was erected in 293 AD for the Roman

From Alexandria to the Second Cataract, Egypt, 1841. Artist: Himely
From Alexandria to the Second Cataract, Egypt, 1841. View looking up the Nile Valley showing the Pyramids and other Ancient Egyptian temples, tombs and monuments

Exterior View of the Ancient Wall of Alexandria, with Cleopatras Needle, 1802. Artist: Thomas Milton
Exterior View of the Ancient Wall of Alexandria, with Cleopatras Needle, 1802. Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in 334 BC

Map of Alexandria, Egypt, 17th century

Pompeys Pillar, Alexandria, 19th century. Artist: David Roberts
Pompeys Pillar, Alexandria, 19th century. Found in the collection of the The Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, 1516-1518. Artist: Lucas Cranach the Elder
The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, 1516-1518. From the collection of the Szepmuveseti Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary

Pompeys Column, Alexandria 1798, 1798. Artist: Vivant Denon
Pompeys Column, Alexandria 1798, 1798. French soldiers viewing the column while another group of men fly a kite. From the Searight Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Pyxis with the martyrdom of St Menas of Alexandria, 6th century
Pyxis with the martyrdom of St Menas of Alexandria (285 ? c. 309). It was made in Egypt, and probably used as a reliquary

Roman bronze bust of the god Serapis, 4th century
Bronze bust of Serapis, an Alexandrian deity assimilated with Zeus. The piece is in the style of the Greek sculptor Bevasis of the 4th century

Byzantine silk with a motif of a hero and lion, possibly Samson, from Alexandria, Damascus, or Antioch. From the Victoria and Albert Museums collection

Aristarchos of Samos (fl260 BC), Alexandrian astronomer, 1493. Aristarchos was the first recorded astronomer to maintain that the Earth orbits the Sun (heliocentric universe)

St Catherine of Alexandria, c1500
St Catherine of Alexandria of Alexandria, c1500. St Catherine of Alexandria was a 4th century early Christian martyr. At her feet is a piece of the spiked wheel upon which she was martyred

The murder of Hypatia, neo-Platonic mathematician and philosopher, 415 (mid 19th century). Hypatia (c370-415) was murdered by followers of Cyril, Christian Patriarch of Alexandria

Battle of Aboukir Bay, Egypt, 21 March 1801. General Ralph Abercromby (1734-1801), Scottish soldier who led an Anglo-Turkish force to victory over the French at Aboukir Bay

Greek manuscript of Ptolemys Geography. Artist: Claudius Ptolemy
Greek manuscript of Ptolemys Geography. Ptolemy (Claudius of Ptolemeus) (c90-168) was an Alexandrian astronomer and geographer

Ptolemy, Alexandrian Greek astronomer and geographer, 1508. Ptolemy (Claudius of Ptolemaeus) (c100-c170 AD), using a quadrant to observe the Moon and stars. Urania, Muse of Astronomy, instructs him

Ptolemy (Claudius of Ptolemaeus), Alexandrian Greek astronomer and geographer, 1618. Ptolemy (fl150 AD) is shown wearing a crown as he was often confused with the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt

Ptolemy (Claudius of Ptolemaeus c90-158), Alexandrian Greek astronomer and geographer. Ptolemy making observations using a quadrant

Obelisks at Alexandria called Cleopatras Needles, 1802

The Battle of the Nile, August 1798, (1800). Artist: J Philippe de Loutherbough
The Battle of the Nile, August 1798, (1800). The battle was fought at night in the Abu Qir Bay near Alexandria. Admiral Lord Nelson found the French fleet at anchor and attacked

St Agnes and St Catherine of Alexandria. Agnes (right), patron saint of virgins, martyred c304, is shown with her emblem, a lamb

Triptych, with the central panel showing the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The left panel depicts Francis of Assisi receiving stigmata, and Saint Elizabeth

Marble altarpieces of saints. From left to right: St Anne holding her daughter Virgin Mary; St Catherine of Alexandria (d307); St Margaret standing on the Devil who visited her in prison

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