The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine
1540
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
About the artist
1540
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine is a 1540 ink by Nicolò Boldrini, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting shows a group of people gathered around a baby. The baby is in the center, and the people are all looking at it. They are all wearing old-fashioned clothes. The people are standing in a room with a window behind them. The window has curtains that are pulled back. There is a bowl of fruit on a table in the corner of the room. The painting is a woodcut, which means it was made by carving a design into a piece of wood and then printing it onto paper. If you want to learn more about this style of art, you could look up the technique of woodcut.
