The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of July 16, 2025
Holy Family with the Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine
c. 1560
Location: 118 Italian Renaissance
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Saint Catherine is usually shown with a spiked wheel; here, it is barely visible below her hand.Description
The marriage shown in this painting is called “mystic” because it was a purely symbolic. The infant Jesus places a ring on the finger of Catherine of Alexandria, a fourth-century saint who had a vision of dedicating herself to God and remaining a virgin instead of marrying. Note the otherworldly quality of the women and children’s elegant faces, compared to the naturalism of elderly Saint Joseph, who may be a likeness of someone the artist knew.- "New in the Galleries." Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 60, no. 1 (January/February 2020): Back cover. Reproduced and Mentioned: Back cover.Grant, Daniel. "Top museum acquisitions: 2019 in review." The Catalogue of Antiques & Fine Art." 19, no. 1 (Spring 2020): 96-105. Mentioned p. 100Korkow, Cory. “Acquisitions 2019: European Paintings and Sculpture, 1500-1800.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 60, no. 2 (March/April 2020): 16. Reproduced: P. 5, 16; Mentioned: P. 16.Griswold, William M. “Recent Acquisitions (2013-20) at the Cleveland Museum of Art.” Burlington Magazine 163, no. 1414 (January 2021): 93-104. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 94, no. 2; mentioned: P. 93
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2019.168