The Assumption of the Virgin is the name of two paintings by the Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci, with the subject of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.
The first canvas was completed in 1590 and now housed in the Prado Museum in Madrid.
The second is from 1600-1601 and is in the famous Cerasi Chapel of the church of Santa Maria del Popolo of Rome. Carracci competed with the major artists for this altarpiece, the prize commission for th...
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The Assumption of the Virgin is the name of two paintings by the Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci, with the subject of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.
The first canvas was completed in 1590 and now housed in the Prado Museum in Madrid.
The second is from 1600-1601 and is in the famous Cerasi Chapel of the church of Santa Maria del Popolo of Rome. Carracci competed with the major artists for this altarpiece, the prize commission for the chapel. It is however one of his less satisfactory arrangements. The Virgin awkwardly rises through a cramped crowd of apostles, levitated by half-a dozen cherubim. The canvas was somewhat overshadowed by the two famous contemporary Caravaggio canvases: the The Conversion of Saint Paul on the Road to Damascus and The Crucifixion of Saint Peter on the two side walls. While both painters were important in the development of Baroque art, the contrast is striking: Carracci's Virgin glows with light, but St. Paul is surrounded by menacing shadows...
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