Holy Family with St Catherine
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| Author: Cesare da
Sesto |
| Painting, Oil on canvas, 89x71 cm |
| Origin: Italy, Between 1515 and
1520 |
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Cesare da Sesto was a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, to whom this
painting was attributed at the time when it entered the Hermitage
in 1899. The famous French writer and art critic Stendhal
considered it to be the best work Leonardo ever painted and it is
indeed a masterly work: the soft, translucent, mysterious shadows
give the figures convincing plasticity and weight, the colouring is
noble and restrained. The master skilfully conveyed the complex
foreshortening of the figure of Joseph as he leans forward, while
the movements and facial expression of the laughing Child are
wonderfully natural.
The artist used one model for both Mary and Catherine, endowing
them with mysterious significance characteristic of female images
by Leonardo.
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| Personage: Jesus, the Virgin Mary, St
Joseph |
| Style: Renaissance |
| Source of entry: acquired in 1769 |
| School: Milan |
| Theme: The Bible and
Christianity |
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Cesare
da Sesto Online
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Cesare Da Sesto Originally from Lombardy, Cesare da Sesto is
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