The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine
Spanish painter (b. ca. 1626, Burgos, d. 1666, Madrid) 207 x 163 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid After his return to Madrid around 1660, Cerezo's development was rapid as a religious painter and as one of the most appealing still-life artist of the period. These abilities are already evident in his Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, where the bright colours, sparkling textures, and harmonious composition show his precocious
Painting ID:: 62368
Paolo Veronese 1547(1547)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 84 X 100 cm
cyf The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine Italian Mannerist Painter, ca.1528-1588
Italian painter and draughtsman. With Titian and Tintoretto he makes up the triumvirate of great painters of the late Renaissance in Venice. He is known as a supreme colourist and for his illusionistic decorations in both fresco and oil. His large paintings of biblical feasts executed for the refectories of monasteries in Venice and Verona are especially celebrated. He also produced many altarpieces, history and mythological paintings and portraits. His compositional sketches in pen, ink and wash, figure studies in chalk, and chiaroscuro modelli and ricordi form a significant body of drawings.
