The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine

after Correggio (Correggio c.1489 – Correggio 1534). Oil painting on panel, The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine after Correggio (Correggio c.1489 – Correggio 1534). The Christ Child is sitting in the centre on the lap of the Virgin who is seated on the left, he looks up at her as he places a ring on the finger of Catherine of Alexandria, kneeling on the right. The Virgin is dressed in red with a blue cloak, St Catherine in yellow with a with a white cloak, she holds a martyr palm in the crook of her right arm and hold out her left hand to the Christ Child, a sword, an attribute of her martydom, lies on the ground in front of St Catherine, there is a distant rocky landscape with blue sky on the right. The original painting, of around 1520/22, is in the Galleria Nazionale di Capidimonte, Naples. Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire (Accredited Museum)