Lodovico Carracci, 1593 - The Dream of Saint Catherine of Alexandria - fine art print

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The classic art masterpiece was created by the Italian painter Lodovico Carracci in 1593. This artpiece is included in the collection of National Gallery of Art, which is the museum of the US-American nation that preserves, collects, exhibits, and fosters an understanding of works of art. With courtesy of: National Gallery of Art, Washington (public domain).The creditline of the artwork is the following: . The alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format and has a side ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width. The painter, graphic artist, etcher Lodovico Carracci was an artist, whose artistic style can primarily be classified as Baroque. The Baroque artist lived for a total of 64 years - born in 1555 in Bologna, Bologna province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy and died in 1619 in Bologna, Bologna province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

What does the National Gallery of Art state about this work of art painted by Lodovico Carracci? (© Copyright - National Gallery of Art - National Gallery of Art)

We recognize this sleeping figure as Saint Catherine by the fragment of spiked wheel in the lower left corner, which was the instrument of an attempted martyrdom. Here Lodovico Carracci represented her legendary dream in which Mary and the infant Christ, accompanied by angels, appeared to her. Plighting his troth, Christ placed a ring on Catherine's finger, and through this mystic marriage she became his bride. To cast the event as a dream, rather than having Saint Catherine receive the ring while awake, is Lodovico's innovation.

Two angels at the left look on with protective tenderness, while others barely emerge amid the vaporous bronze radiance at the right -- spirit becoming matter. The figures, solid and robust, bask in an indeterminate setting. A languorous warmth pervades the scene and slows the composition. At the same time, the quirky folds and pleats cascading down Catherine's garments impart a vertiginous sensation -- the dizziness of sleep.

Lodovico was the eldest of the three Carracci, the family of Bolognese artists who inaugurated the age of the baroque. His depictions of saints in states of visionary ecstasy were highly prized in an age when the purpose of religious art was to arouse intensely pious emotions in the spectator.

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