Smyth, CarolynLinford, SarahMorehead, Elizabeth2024-06-132024-06-132021Morehead, Elizabeth. "Spiritual and Sensual Visions: Four paintings of the Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine by Correggio". Master's Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2021.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/136Master of Arts in Art History -- John Cabot University, Fall 2021.Italian Renaissance artist, Antonio Allegri da Correggio, has been considered a purely sensual artist by generations of scholars due to limited documentation of his life. Correggio received several commissions in Parma and Mantua at Benedictine churches and monasteries and in the second half of the twentieth century, a certificate of ‘brotherhood’ from the reformed Benedictines, the Cassinese Congregation, was published which further illuminated this association. In light of this relationship with the Cassinese, who focused on the study of sacred scripture and the writings of Church fathers, Correggio’s work may be considered with regard to the spiritual and intellectual influences in his life. Correggio returned to the The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria four times, a subject rooted in intimacy and divine love. This thesis will consider these four paintings and the artist’s intelligent and sensitive visions of the subject through close formal analysis and with consideration of his personal association with the Cassinese Congregation.vii, 73 pagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Correggio, 1489?-1534Mystic marriage of St. Catherine (Correggio)Thesis