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

Virgin and Child with Sts Mark and Jerome

1520-25
Oil on panel, marouflaged, 69 x 103 cm
Private collection

Catena is perhaps best known for his Sacre Conversazioni (Sacred Conversations) of which this is a characteristic example. It is a late work, probably painted around 1520-25, when Catena's style approaches that of Andrea Previtali, especially in the greater sense of softness to the modelling of his figures.