oil on canvas
Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti, Bergamo
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Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, with the Donor Niccolò Bonghi, 1523 oil on canvas Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti, Bergamo |
The opulent color and graceful composition make this one of Lotto's most admired paintings. He gave it to his landlord Niccolò Bonghi (portrayed at left) in payment for a year's rent. Catherine's symbolic marriage to Christ is set in a sixteenth-century domestic interior that once included a landscape view at the upper right. It was apparently cut away by French soldiers in 1527 and later replaced with blank canvas.