The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine from Opera Selectorial

John Baptist Jackson was a British painter and printmaker. In Venice, he received the support of British consul Joseph Smith to produce a suite of large chiaroscuro woodcuts reproducing oil paintings by Venetian Renaissance artists Titian, Jacopo Tinteretto, Paulo Veronese, and Jacobo Bassano. Giovanni Battista Pasquali subsequently published this suite of prints in 1745 as a bound volume, now commonly known as Jackson’s “Venetian Set.” “The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine” reproduces an altarpiece Veronese painted circa 1565–1570 for the church of Santa Caterina dei Sacchi. Since the end of the First World War, the painting has hung in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice.