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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Vincenzo Catena, in an almost emotionless manner, shows the Virgin and Child flanked by two female saints in a compositional type invented by Giovanni Bellini in the 1480s. The style, therefore, is already archaic for its time, looking back even further, to the frontality and flatness of earlier Venetian and even Byzantine icon painting. The daring combination of bright colours in front of a black background, on the other hand, is quite unusual for Venetian painting around 1500. Unfortunately the third saint, who is on the left, accompanying the Virgin and Mary Magdalene, has not been identified. | Subjects: | figure; religion (Virgin and Child unidentified saint) Mary Magdalen | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Catena, Vincenzo di Biagio (Italian painter, ca.1470-1531) Æ Previously attributed to school of Bellini, Giovanni (Italian painter, born 1431-1436, died 1516) Previously attributed to after Bellini, Giovanni (Italian painter, born 1431-1436, died 1516) Previously attributed to Cima da Conegliano, Giovanni Battista (Italian painter, ca. 1459-1517) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8808... | Go to resource |
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