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Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (c. 1524) by Parmigianino. Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine or Mystic Betrothal of Saint Catherine is a c.1524 oil on canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Parmigianino. The work is now in the Galleria nazionale di Parma.
In 1521, Parmigianino was sent to Viadana (along with painter Girolamo Bedoli who was to marry his cousin) to escape the wars between the French, Imperial, and papal armies. In Viadana, he painted two panels in tempera, depicting Saint Francis for the church of the Frati de' Zoccoli, and the Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine for San
Giorgio Vasari wrote of a "Madonna seen from the side, in a fair pose, with several other figures" made by Parmigianino for a saddler friend of his in Bologna.That work was first linked to the London work in 1784, though some art historians date it a few years earlier during the artist's time in Rome, which ended with the Sack of Rome in 1527.
Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine is an unfinished c.1529 oil on panel painting of the mystical marriage of Saint Catherine by Parmigianino.. It dates to the painter's time in Bologna or a few years earlier during his stay in Rome.
Another Saints Stephen and Lawrence and a Saint Vitalis with the Horse, both by Parmigianino, are in the following chapel. The altarpiece in the Zancheri Chapel, Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria (1536) is by Bedoli. Attributed to Parmigianino, but today considered by Anselmi, is a fresco cycle.
The young Parmigianino, then seventeen, was sent by his family to Viadana to his cousin's house. According to Italian late Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari , [ 1 ] there Parmigianino painted two tempera panels: St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata (lost) and the Marriage of St. Catherine , which was placed in the church of San Pietro.
Barna da Siena, c. 1340. Although Saint Catherine of Alexandria was supposed to have lived in the third and fourth centuries, the story of her vision appears first to be found in literature after 1337, over a thousand years after the traditional dating of her death, and ten years before Catherine of Siena was born. [3]
Martyrdom of Saint John the Evangelist: Italy - Mantua - Palazzo Ducale: external image: Meeting of Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate: drawing: U.S.A. - Illinois - Chicago - Art Institute of Chicago: Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria: oil on canvas: Italy - Parma - Galleria nazionale: Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of ...