print
- Museum number
- W,1.88
- Title
- Series: La Vita di Caterina Vergine e Martire (The Life of the Virgin and Martyress St Catherine)
- Description
-
St Catherine's body transported by angels
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1541
- Dimensions
-
Height: 98 millimetres
-
Width: 72 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- This woodcut comes from Pietro Aretino`s `La Vita di Caterina Vergine e Martire`, published by Marcolini in 1541. The design of the composition has recently been attributed to Giorgio Vasari rather than Francesco Salivati by A. Nova, `Francesco Salviati e gli editori, 1: Le incisioni`, in C. Monbeig Goguel (ed.), exhib. cat., Francesco Salviati o la Bella Maniera, 1998, p.66, and C. Monbeig Goguel in Ibid, no.136, p.327. Aretino`s hagiography contains two other woodcuts representing the eponymous saint`s martyrdom and mystical marriage, the latter also in the BM (1874,0808.1365).
Information from Sharon Gregory by email, 1 September 2010.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: La Vita di Caterina Vergine e Martire
- Acquisition date
- 1810 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- with no sign of provenance on the verso
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- W,1.88
