Mystical Marriage of St Catherine

The painter, printmaker, and sculptor Domenico Beccafumi was, alongside Sodoma, Siena’s leading artist in the first half of the fifteenth century, with important public and private commissions in his home town and only occasionally elsewhere. He developed a very individual style, rooted in the tradition of Sienese painting and influenced by contemporary art, especially that of Florence and Rome, which made him perhaps the earliest and certainly one of the most important representatives of Tuscan Mannerism.