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Attribuito a Luca Mombello (Orzivecchi 1518/1520 - Brescia ? 1594/1595)
Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine
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€ 7.000 - 10.000
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oil on canvas
cm 76 x 67
within an ancient frame
cm 76 x 67
within an ancient frame
For stylistic reasons, the painting should be placed within the Brescian pictorial culture of the mid-sixteenth century, able of perfectly combining the typical elements of Lombard realism with those of Venetian colorism. The author of the canvas is, in fact, undoubtedly indebted to the lesson of Moretto, allowing us to limit the attribution among his followers. In particular, the work finds close affinities with the production of Luca Mombello, one of the most significant artists in the workshop of the Brescian master and, not by chance, chosen to complete the works that the latter had left unfinished upon his death in 1554.
The painting can be compared with that of a similar subject in a private collection, the Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine with God the Father and Angels (see D. Dotti, entry in Sacro al femminile. Opere degli allievi di Moretto , exhibition catalogue, edited by D. Dotti, Cinisello Balsamo 2022, pp. 70-71, no. 9). However, it is the precious and rich garments of Saint Catherine and the Virgin, with their perfect mimetic rendering of the fabrics, that offer the most valid comparisons, recalling the characters of some of Mombello's famous pictorial works: look, for example, at the two allegorical female figures in the foreground of the Coronation of the Virgin in the Civic Museums of Brescia and, in the same work, at the red velvet of the Virgin (inv. 695; see M. Fiori, in Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo , 2014, pp. 309-310, no. 162); or, to the meticulously embroidered dress worn by the saintly protagonist of the Conversion of the Magdalene in a private collection (see D. Dotti, ibidem, pp. 64-66).
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