The Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine

Marco d'Oggiono, who was a faithful follower of Leonardo who made numerous copies of the Last Supper and propagated his master's style across Lombardy, created this work around 1490, now in the National Museum in Warsaw. The depiction of saints was fundamental to the devotional culture of the fifteenth century, with each saint's iconographic attributes carefully codified to ensure proper identification. This work belongs to the High Renaissance, when the innovations of the preceding century were synthesized into works of monumental clarity and ideal beauty.

The figure's identifying attributes are rendered with iconographic precision, while subtle variations in pose, expression, and drapery treatment distinguish this depiction from workshop standard formulas.