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The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine
Carlo Maratti (Italian, 1625-1713)
c. 1625
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 17.4 × 13 cm (6 7/8 × 5 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Considered the last of the great Roman painters, Maratta came to Rome in 1636, and began to make etchings in 1647. Only thirteen prints are known to be by his hand; the religious sentiment of this plate is characteristic of them.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
