Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata

Painting by Domenico Beccafumi

Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Domenico Beccafumi, executed c. 1515, now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena.

The painting depicts Catherine of Siena kneeling in front of a crucifix, as she receives the stigmata. The Virgin Mary carrying the Christ Child appears above her.

The first masterpiece of the artist's maturity, it was originally in the now-destroyed Olivetan monastery outside the Porta Tufi. It is dated on stylistic grounds. The predella was removed around the time of Della Valle before being recovered in the Padre Generale's apartments. The whole work was restored by the Florentine Gagliardi in 1830.^[1]

References

^ (in Italian) Anna Maria Francini Ciaranfi, Beccafumi, Sadea Editore/Sansoni, Firenze 1967

Domenico Beccafumi

Paintings

Trinity Triptych (1513)
Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Uffizi) (c. 1514–1515)
Bellanti Madonna (c. 1515)
Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata (c. 1515)
Saint Paul Enthroned (c. 1515)
Marcia (c. 1519)
Tanaquil (c. 1519)
Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Alte Pinakothek) (c. 1521–1522)
Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Galleria Palatina) (c. 1521–1522)
Putti Bearing a Tondo Showing the Drunkenness of Noah (c. 1522–1523)
Saint Michael Defeats the Rebel Angels (c. 1524)
San Martino Nativity (c. 1524)
The Choice of Hercules (c. 1520–1525)
Deucalion and Pyrrha (c. 1520–1525)
Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist and a Donor (c. 1528)
Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (c. 1528)
Self-Portrait (c. 1525–1530)
The Story of Papirius (c. 1525–1530)
Descent into Limbo (c. 1530–1535)
Coronation of the Virgin (c. 1539)
Sarteano Annunciation (c. 1546)