# The Holy Family with St Catherine of Alexandria [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LOTTO, Lorenzo]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 82 x 115 cm ## Commentary Six other versions of this subject by Lotto are known, the present one being the earliest and the finest of them. Exceptionally among devotional images of this type, it is not the Virgin but Joseph who occupies the centre and performs the principal actions. St Catherine of Alexandria merely prays, there is no mystic marriage. The probable subject of this signed and dated painting is the Rest on the Flight to Egypt, with the anachronistic presence of St Catherine. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Allegory of Chastity detail\)]() - [Allegory of Chastity \("Maiden's Dream"\)]() - [Allegory of Virtue and Vice \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of Virtue and Vice]() - [Angel Annunciating]() - [Angel of the Annunciation]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation]() - [Architect]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()