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Description: | The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, by Correggio (Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, oil on panel, 28.5 x 24.0 cm) was the model for this full-scale copy. The composition dates from the 1520s when Correggio painted many small devotional works that became very popular. The Marriage of St Catherine was copied many times. There are some differences between the two paintings both in the landscape and in the gaze of the Child who, instead of looking at the Virgin, seems to look away. The colour scheme is similar except for St Catherine's draped robe which is blue in the replica but probably lost its colour in the original where today it is whitish. The paint handling in the original is relatively rough with a lot of impasto unlike the more smooth paint application in the Glasgow replica. However on the basis of its technique the copy can be tentatively dated to the18th century. | Subjects: | religion (Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine); figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Correggio (Italian painter, ca. 1489-1534) Æ Attributed to after | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8818... | Go to resource |
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