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Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (Lotto, Munich)

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Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (1506–1508) by Lorenzo Lotto

Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine is an oil-on-panel painting by Italian Renaissance artist Lorenzo Lotto, painted ca. 1506–1508. It is signed on Catherine of Alexandria's broken wheel (centre foreground) "Laurent.[ius] Lotus F.[ecit]". The painting is known to have moved from the Würzburg Residence to the Hofgartengalerie in 1804 and then to its present home in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.[1]

A workshop version of the painting is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Carlo Pirovano, Lotto, Electa, Milano 2002. ISBN 88-435-7550-3
  2. ^ "The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine". 2 April 2017.