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A rare version with both saints: Ambrogio Bergognone, The Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint Catherine of Siena. The mystical marriage of Saint Catherine covers two different subjects often shown in Catholic art arising from visions received by either Catherine of Alexandria or Catherine of Siena (1347–1380), in which these virgin saints went through a mystical ...
The painting shows the virgin Mary holding the Christ child on her knees while the child celebrates the symbolic mystical marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria by offering her a ring. St. St. Catherine, kneeling before the Christ child, wears a wide fur-lined rose cloak and gilt crown; her long, blond hair is an attribute of aristocratic ...
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Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria with Saint Sebastian; Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine: Artist: Antonio da Correggio Year: c. 1527: Dimensions: 105 cm (41 in) × 102 cm (40 in) Identifiers: Joconde work ID: 000PE024813
The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine is a c.1529 oil on panel painting of the mystical marriage of Saint Catherine by Parmigianino, now in the National Gallery, London, who acquired it in 1974. It was engraved by Giulio Bonasone.
The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine (or Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara) is a c. 1480 oil-on-oak painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Hans Memling, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Virgin Mary sits on a throne in a garden holding the Child Jesus in her lap.
The mystical marriage of St Catherine was echoed in the sacrament of consecration of nuns into a religious order. The scene depicts the toddler Jesus placing a ring on the finger of a kneeling St Catherine. In her hair, Catherine wears an apparent crown with wheel-like spokes, recalling the instrument (wheel) used in her execution.