# St Catherine Carried to her Tomb by Angels

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## Artwork

- Artist: [LUINI, Bernardino](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/luini-bernardino-r675c35f58072e0>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Fresco fragment transferred to canvas, 120 x 226 cm

## Commentary

The fresco is from the Villa Labia alla Pelluca, near Milan. The entire fresco cycle was detached in 1821-22. Since 1906 almost the complete cycle has been at the Brera. The contrast between the rigid line of the sarcophagus and the calligraphic freedom of the figures profiled in flight emphasizes the figure of the saint. It is almost as if she were being pushed back by the stony hardness of the rigorously geometrical tomb. Accompanying the sinuous and springing line of the angels, and the soft and heavy rhythms of the lifeless body, the refined passages of tonal colour make this fragment one of the mot successful of Luini&#39;s poetic achievements.

## Related artworks

- [A Female Martyr](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/luini-bernardino-r675c35f58072e0/a-female-martyr-rea742c15255664>)
- [Crucifixion and Scenes from the Life of Christ](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/luini-bernardino-r675c35f58072e0/crucifixion-and-scenes-from-the-life-of-christ-r385dfca0e50020>)
- [Crucifixion and Scenes from the Life of Christ](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/luini-bernardino-r675c35f58072e0/crucifixion-and-scenes-from-the-life-of-christ-r5d9c30244872b3>)
- [Crucifixion](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/luini-bernardino-r675c35f58072e0/crucifixion-rc429d63399677c>)
- [Girls Bathing](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/luini-bernardino-r675c35f58072e0/girls-bathing-r31c71d11b0663a>)
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- [Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist and the Lamb](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/luini-bernardino-r675c35f58072e0/madonna-and-child-with-st-john-the-baptist-and-the-lamb-r42b8780d0fe8b6>)
- [Madonna and Child with Sts Catherine and Barbara \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/luini-bernardino-r675c35f58072e0/madonna-and-child-with-sts-catherine-and-barbara-detail-r8cc01eeb8ec9a7>)
- [Madonna and Child with Sts Catherine and Barbara](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/luini-bernardino-r675c35f58072e0/madonna-and-child-with-sts-catherine-and-barbara-rfd37bcb13fbf0c>)
- [Madonna in the Rose Garden](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/luini-bernardino-r675c35f58072e0/madonna-in-the-rose-garden-r7e0bf937430920>)
- [Madonna of the Carnation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/luini-bernardino-r675c35f58072e0/madonna-of-the-carnation-r34749c4cd3e790>)
- [Madonna with Child and the Young St John](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/luini-bernardino-r675c35f58072e0/madonna-with-child-and-the-young-st-john-rcc9265e3bd626a>)

## Attribution

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