Vision and Swoon of St Catherine
1881
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
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Sodoma
Il Sodoma was the name given to the Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi.
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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Vision and Swoon of St Catherine is a 1881 by Sodoma, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows a scene with St Catherine. It's a chromolithograph, a type of color print. The process is interesting: a design is applied to a stone with greasy chalk, then the stone is moistened. The technique used here is similar to what artist Sodoma used in his other works, which often featured strong contrasts of light and dark, similar to the technique of chiaroscuro.
This chromolithograph reproduces Sodoma’s fresco depicting Saint Catherine in a swoon as she receives the stigmata, supported by two nuns, with Christ and putti above and a landscape, column, and fragment of an altarpiece framing the scene. Produced in 1881 for the Arundel Society, the print was part of a series of reproductive color lithographs intended for subscribers to disseminate Italian fresco cycles from the 14th to 16th centuries. The image was based on a watercolor copy selected by the Society’s council and then translated into multiple stones, one for each color, before being…
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Il Sodoma was the name given to the Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi.
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