Vincenzo Catena (c. 1480–1531)
was an Italian painter of the
Renaissance
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Venetian school. He is also known as Vincenzo de Biagio.
Life
Nothing is known of the date and place of Catena's birth. The earliest known record of him is in an inscription on the back of
Giorgione
Giorgione (, , ; born Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco; 1477–78 or 1473–74 – 17 September 1510) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school during the High Renaissance, who died in his thirties. He is known for the elusive poetic qualit ...
's ''Laura'', in which he is described as the painter's ''Cholego''. Catena's early style is however, much closer to that of
Giovanni Bellini than the innovative work of Giorgione, and it was not until a few years after Giorgione's death in 1510 that his influence began to show itself in Catena's output.
[ There are about a dozen signed paintings by Catena in existence, although only one of these, the ''Martyrdom of St Christina'' (1520) in the church of ]Santa Maria Mater Domini
Santa Maria Mater Domini is a Renaissance style church in the sestiere of Santa Croce in Venice, Italy.
History
A church at the site dates from the tenth century. The architect of the present interior is not entirely certain: Pietro Lombardo, Ma ...
in Venice, can be dated with any certainty, from an inscription on its marble surround.
Catena's wills indicate that he was a man of some wealth, and that he had friends in Venetian humanist
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circles.[
]
References
Sources
Web Gallery of Art
''Adoration of the Shepherds''
External links
''Italian Paintings, Venetian School''
a collection catalog containing information about Catena and his works (see index; plate 16-17).
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1470s births
1531 deaths
15th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
16th-century Italian painters
Painters from Venice
Renaissance painters