The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine

ca. between 1550 and 1560

Paolo Veronese Italian, 1528-1588

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine

Artwork Date ca. between 1550 and 1560

Artist Paolo Veronese

Life Dates 1528-1588

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 66 1/2 inches × 46 inches (168.9 × 116.8 cm) Framed: 77 1/8 × 56 1/4 × 4 1/2 inches (195.9 × 142.9 × 11.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter O. Briggs

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 44.265

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Provenance

by 1649, possibly Niccolo Renieri (Venice, Italy);
Giuseppe Caliari, great-nephew of the artist (Ferrara, Italy);
Mora family (Ferrara, Italy);
Counsellor Z. Sernagiotto (Ferrara, Italy);
1871, purchased by (Luigi Rossi, Venice, Italy);
1871, purchased by Quincy Adams Shaw (Boston, Massachusetts, USA);
by 1908, by descent to Mrs. Pauline Shaw Fennoe;
(Castano Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, USA);
until 1944, Frederick Mondschein aka Mont (New York, New York, USA);
Mr. and Mrs. Walter O. Briggs;
1944-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Ridolfi, C., Le Meraviglie dell' Arte. 1648, p. 320.

Ridolfi, C. Le Meraviglie dell' Arte, ed. D. von Hadeln. Berlin, 1914, p. 320.

"Detroit Unveils Its Magnificent Veronese." Art Digest 19, no. 8 (January 15, 1945): 7, p. 7 (ill.).

Suida, W. "Paolo Veronese and his circle: some unpublished works." Art Quarterly 8 (1945): pp. 175-187, pp. 175-176.

Richardson, E.P. "The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 25, no. 1 (1946): front cover (ill.), pp. 2–5.

Richardson, E.P. Masterpieces of Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1949, p. 73.

Painters' Painter. Exh. cat., Albright Art Gallery. Buffalo, 1954, p. 58, cat. 3, pl. 3 (ill.).

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, vol. 1. London, 1957, p. 130.

Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired Before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 112.

Richardson, E.P., ed. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 3rd ed. Detroit, 1966, p. 93, (ill.).

Ostrow, S. "Agostino Carracci." Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1966, pp. 528-529.

Marini, R. L'opera completa di Veronese. Milan, 1968, p. 132, cat. 325.

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 39.

Pignatti, T. Veronese. Venice, 1976, vol. I, p. 177, no. A 60 and vol. II (figs. 774 and 775).

Cocke, P. Review of "Veronese: L'opera completa" by T. Pignatti. Burlington Magazine 119 (November 1977) pp. 786-787, p. 786.

Bohlin, D.D. Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family. Washington, D.C., 1979, p. 232 (fig. 133a).

DeGrazia, D. Le Stampe dei Carracci con i disegni, le incisioni, le copie e i dipinti conessi. Bologna, 1984, pp. 143-44, cat. no. 160.

Pignatti, T. "Paolo Veronese e i ritratti degli anni Ottanta." Scritti di storia dell'arte in onore di Roberto Salvini. Florence 1984, pp. 445-448, p. 446.

Pignatti, T. and R. Pedrocco. Veronese, catalogo completo dei dipinti. Florence, 1991, pp. 248-249 (ill.).

Rowland-Jones, Anthony. “The Minuet: Painter-Musicians in Triple Time.” Early Music 26, no. 3 (August 1998): 415-424, 427, 429, 431, p. 419.

Avery-Quash, Susanna. “The Travel Notebooks of Sir Charles Eastlake: Volume II.” The Volume of the Walpole Society 73 (2011):199-332, p. 310.

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Paolo Veronese, The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine, ca. between 1550 and 1560, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter O. Briggs, 44.265.