CATENA, Vincenzo
(b. ca. 1480, Venezia, d. 1531, Venezia)

The Holy Family with a Female Saint

1498-1500
Oil on panel, 66 x 96 cm
Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest

The composition clearly derives from the devotional pictures of the Bellini school from around the late fifteenth century and first decade of the sixteenth century. Despite many minor retouchings all over the surface, this painting has preserved its wonderful original colours.