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17th Century Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine Painting Oil on Canvas

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17th century Mystical marriage of Saint Catherine Measures: Oil on canvas, 98 x 81 cm - with frame 119 x 102 cm The scene represents the mystical marriage between Catherine of Alexandria and Christ, an iconography that was born in the fifteenth century and in many cases preferred over the more bloody martyrdom of the saint with the wheel. The saint is depicted in front of the Virgin holding the Child portrayed with the wedding ring in her hand, enriched with a precious stone. According to the Golden Legend, Catherine of Alexandria was a very beautiful young woman, the only daughter of the king of Costa, who had refused to marry the emperor Maxentius because she was Christian and devoted to Christ. Maxentius, failing to convince her to sacrifice to her idols, had sent for men who were wiser than her and fifty of her among philosophers and orators who presented themselves and tried to distract her from faith in Christ. Catherine, however, fought so well that she was able to convert them, arousing the anger of the emperor who condemned them to the stake. Catherine instead, who had criticized Maxentius for the new persecutions against Christians, was sentenced to prison without food. She abandoned for twelve days, she was fed by a dove sent by God. Maxentius then decided to execute her with the torture of her toothed wheel which became her iconographic attribute of her; but by divine intervention it broke and the young woman was saved. Finally, she was beheaded and milk gushed from her neck. Catherine's princely status is here testified by her sumptuous dress. The iconography of mystical marriage was born in the fifteenth century, probably because the traditional iconographic attribute, the wheel, was sometimes so small as to look like a ring, and refers to a vision that will always remain present in the mind and heart of the saint. In her Heaven, in the midst of the Angels and Saints, Christ Child appeared to her in the arms of the Virgin. He took a precious ring that the Virgin Mary handed her and slipped it into her finger, telling her “I, your Creator and Savior, take you in marriage; confident that you will keep yourself pure as long as you celebrate your eternal wedding with me, in Paradise ”. When she awoke she Catherine she found in her finger the same ring that she had seen and had in Heaven, and she considered herself the bride of Christ forever. The painter places at the center of the observer's attention the exchange of the ring between Christ child and the saint, arranged in the foreground inside a room, in which the entire composition is dynamically constructed. A child Saint John draws the attention of the Virgin who turns her face away, intimately leaving the silent dialogue between Saint Catherine and Christ. A more sober character is attributed to the painting, due to a more austere private devotion.

Dimensions:

Height: 46.86 in (119 cm)Width: 40.16 in (102 cm)Depth: 1.58 in (4 cm)

Materials and Techniques:

Canvas,Hand-Painted,Oiled,Painted

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

17th Century

Date of Manufacture:

17th Century

Condition:

Refinished. Wear consistent with age and use. The painting has been cleaned.