Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (Procaccini)

Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine is a c.1616-1620 oil on canvas painting by Giulio Cesare Procaccini, now in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan. It is one of the artist's last works,[1] influenced by Correggio, Titian's allegories and Leonardo da Vinci's The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (Louvre).[2]

Its early history is unclear, though it may originally have been painted for Scipione Toso, a Milanese nobleman and important art collector.[3] It is recorded in the collections of cardinal Cesare Monti, by whom it was left to the arch-episcopal collection. It was then requisitioned by viceroy Eugenio Beauharnais to be exhibited at the Accademia di Brera.

References

1. Brigstocke, H., Procaccini in America, Hall & Knight, 2002
2. (in Italian) Coppa S., Strada P., Seicento lombardo a Brera. Capolavori e riscoperte, p.159, op.cit.
3. (in Italian) Neilson, N. W., Giulio Cesare Procaccini: disegnatore, Nomos Edizioni, 2004

Bibliography

• (in Italian) Coppa S., Strada P.,Seicento lombardo a Brera. Capolavori e riscoperte, Skira, 2013.
• (in Italian) Mina Gregori (editor), Pittura a Milano dal seicento al neoclassicismo, Cariplo, Milano, 1999.
• (in Italian) Brera. La Pinacoteca e i suoi capolavori, S. Bandera (editor), Skira, Milano 2009.
• (in Italian) Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti (editor),Pinacoteca di Brera, Arnoldo Mondadori, Milano, 1970