Vincenzo Catena

The recorded working language is Italian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Venice. Works named in the authority record are Gian Giorgio Trissino, Portrait of a Young Man and A Warrior adoring the Infant Christ and the Virgin. Work by Vincenzo Catena is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Museo del Prado, National Gallery of Canada, Metropolitan Museum of Art and National Galleries Scotland.

• Name — Vincenzo Catena • Born — c. 1480 • Birthplace — Italy • Died — 1531 • Place of death — Italy • Occupation — Painter • Education — Venetian school • Illustration — Portrait of a Woman, painting by Vincenzo Catena, ca. 1520, El Paso Museum of Art

Nothing is known of the date and place of Catena's birth. The earliest known record of him is in an inscription on the back of Giorgione's Laura, in which he is described as the painter's Cholego. Catena's early style is however, much closer to that of Giovanni Bellini than the innovative work of Giorgione, and it was not until a few years after Giorgione's death in 1510 that his influence began to show itself in Catena's output. There are about a dozen signed paintings by Catena in existence, although only one of these, the Martyrdom of St Christina (1520) in the church of Santa Maria Mater Domini in Venice, can be dated with any certainty, from an inscription on its marble surround. Catena's wills indicate that he was a man of some wealth, and that he had friends in Venetian humanist circles.

Works recorded as notable number 3: Gian Giorgio Trissino, Portrait of a Young Man and A Warrior adoring the Infant Christ and the Virgin. His recorded genre is portrait.