Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint James
Painting by Lorenzo Lotto
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Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint James is an oil-on-canvas painting by Lorenzo Lotto, created c. 1527, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.[1][2] To the right are the two martyr saints Catherine of Alexandria and James the Great.
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| Artist | Lorenzo Lotto |
| Year | c. 1527 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 117 cm × 152 cm (46 in × 60 in) |
| Location | Kunsthistorisches Museum |
The first written mention of the painting dates to 1660, in Boschini's Carta del navigar pittoresco la citò, which called it "splendid... well-thought-out and memorable". The painting was then already in the Habsburg collections. Boschini misattributed it to Palma il Vecchio, but it is now thought to be by Lotto using a composition by Palma. It was probably produced as a private (rather than church) commission just after Lotto's arrival in Venice.[3]
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