Veneto 0038 - Public domain portrait painting

Museo Poldi Pezzoli
  





Native name
Museo Poldi Pezzoli

Parent institution
Case museo di Milano 

Location
Milan, Italy

Coordinates
45° 28′ 07.19″ N, 9° 11′ 29.7″ E  

Established
25 April 1881 

Web page
www.museopoldipezzoli.it

Authority control

: Q1190657
VIAF: 127262991
ISNI: 0000 0001 2153 4165
LCCN: n50056775
SUDOC: 074301276
BNF: 12210347g
WorldCat



institution QS:P195,Q1190657
English: Young Woman as Saint Catherine
The Poldi Pezzoli panel is an old copy, rather abraded, of a successful prototype by Bartolomeo Veneto, today in Glasgow (Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, inv. 210) of which at least another six are known. It shows a young woman with her head circled by jasmine, symbol of God’s love. On her right is the spiked wheel, instrument of Saint Catherine of Alexandria’s martyrdom. Compared to the original, the anonymous artist of this work has simplified the ornamental details in the floral garland or her hair, while maintaining a high level of quality. It is possibly the work of one of Bartolomeo’s close followers and the date would not be far from the original in Glasgow, datable to about 1520.