Vincenzo Catena

Portrait of a Woman, painting by Vincenzo Catena, ca. 1520, El Paso Museum of Art Vincenzo Catena (c. 1480–1531) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance Venetian school. He is also known as Vincenzo de Biagio.

Life Nothing is known of the date and place of Catena's birth. The earliest known record of him is in an inscription on the back of Giorgione's Laura, in which he is described as the painter's Cholego. Catena's early style is however, much closer to that of Giovanni Bellini than the innovative work of Giorgione, and it was not until a few years after Giorgione's death in 1510 that his influence began to show itself in Catena's output. Catena's wills indicate that he was a man of some wealth, and that he had friends in Venetian humanist circles.