Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint James

Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint James is a oil on canvas painting by Lorenzo Lotto, created c. 1527, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.[1][2] To the right are the two martyr saints Catherine of Alexandria and James the Great.

Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint James (c. 1527) by Lorenzo Lotto

The first written mention of the painting dates to 1660, when Boschini's Carta del navigar pittoresco la citò, by which time it was already in the Habsburg collections - that work called it "splendid... well-thought-out and memorable". He mis-attributed to Palma il Vecchio, rather than Lotto using a composition by Palma as it is now held to be. It was probably produced as a private (rather than church) commission just after Lotto's arrival in Venice.[3]

References
  1. Roberta D'Adda, Lotto, Skira, Milano 2004.
  2. "KHM Bilddatenbank — KHM Bilddatenbank". 4 March 2016. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  3. Carlo Pirovano, Lotto, Electa, Milano 2002. ISBN 88-435-7550-3
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