The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine

after Correggio (Correggio c.1489 – Correggio 1534). Oil painting on canvas, The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, after Correggio (Correggio c.1489 – Correggio 1534). The picture shows three figures, the Virgin on the left, on her lap in the centre the Christ Child and Catherine of Alezandria on the right, the Christ Child is placing a ring on the right hand of St Catherine against a landscape in the background. St Catherine is reputed to have taken a vow of perpetual virginity after a vision in which the Christ Child betrothed her to himself with a ring. This is one of many copies of the original picture in the Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples. Belton House, Lincolnshire (Accredited Museum)