# Holy Family with the Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine

- By: Tommaso d’Antonio Manzuoli, called Maso da San Friano (Italian, 1531–1571)
- Date: c. 1560
- Medium: oil on panel
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Image: 148 x 103 cm (58 1/4 x 40 9/16 in.)
- Culture: Italy
- Credit line: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.168)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/2019.168/2019.168_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The marriage shown in this painting is called “mystic” because it was a purely symbolic. The infant Jesus places a ring on the finger of Catherine of Alexandria, a fourth-century saint who had a vision of dedicating herself to God and remaining a virgin instead of marrying. Note the otherworldly quality of the women and children’s elegant faces, compared to the naturalism of elderly Saint Joseph, who may be a likeness of someone the artist knew.