Matrimonio mistico di santa Caterina d'Alessandria

Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1575

Height:

337.0 cm  (132 11/16 in.)

Width:

241.0 cm  (94 7/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Additional titles

Description

St. Catherine receives a ring from the Christ child in a mystical wedding accompanied by angels playing lute. A viola da gamba is also visible.

People as subjects

St. Catherine of Alexandria (ca. 282-ca. 305)
St. Mary (Blessed Virgin)
Jesus Christ

Iconclass

11HH(CATHERINE)34
the mystic marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria with the infant Christ: the Christ-child puts a ring on her finger

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394] (Two lutes, one partial)
Viola da gamba [3604] (Partially covered)

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Stevens, Jane R. "Hands, music, and meaning in some seventeenth-century Dutch paintings", Imago musicae: International yearbook of musical iconography 1 (1984): 75-102, fig. 12. RILM 1984-07012.

RIdIM record id

4746