Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine (or Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara) is an oil-on-oak painting by Early Netherlandish painter Hans Memling, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It measures 68.3 x 73.3 cm and was executed c. 1480. The panels depict the Virgin holding the Child on her lap, flanked by two virgin martyr saints, St Catherine of Alexandria and St Barbara, against a landscape. It is a devotional donor portrait, and combines then popular themes of Marian art with elements common to iconography of Mary and the Child, such as the Hortus conclusus, sacra conversazione and a Virgo inter Virgines – the latter of which always presents Mary with Sts Catherine and Barbara.The work is typical of Memling's serene and harmonious style. Maryan Ainsworth describes the composition as perfectly balanced and harmonious, the colors "bright and clear". Memling combined techniques learned from his predecessors Rogier van der Weyden, to whom he was almost certainly apprenticed, and Jan van Eyck, synthesizing elements of the earlier artists' work.The composition is a copy of the central panel of Memling's St John Altarpiece, with some alterations. It is unknown when Memling painted it; 1480 seems a probable date according to tree ring analysis. The arbor arching over the Virgin's throne was added at a later date, probably in the 16th century."@en }
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- Mystic_Marriage_of_St._Catherine_(Memling) abstract "The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine (or Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara) is an oil-on-oak painting by Early Netherlandish painter Hans Memling, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It measures 68.3 x 73.3 cm and was executed c. 1480. The panels depict the Virgin holding the Child on her lap, flanked by two virgin martyr saints, St Catherine of Alexandria and St Barbara, against a landscape. It is a devotional donor portrait, and combines then popular themes of Marian art with elements common to iconography of Mary and the Child, such as the Hortus conclusus, sacra conversazione and a Virgo inter Virgines – the latter of which always presents Mary with Sts Catherine and Barbara.The work is typical of Memling's serene and harmonious style. Maryan Ainsworth describes the composition as perfectly balanced and harmonious, the colors "bright and clear". Memling combined techniques learned from his predecessors Rogier van der Weyden, to whom he was almost certainly apprenticed, and Jan van Eyck, synthesizing elements of the earlier artists' work.The composition is a copy of the central panel of Memling's St John Altarpiece, with some alterations. It is unknown when Memling painted it; 1480 seems a probable date according to tree ring analysis. The arbor arching over the Virgin's throne was added at a later date, probably in the 16th century.".