Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Oil on Copper, 17th century Following models of Guido Reni (Bologna, 1575-1642). Oil on copper showing the Virgin Mary sitting on clouds, dressed in a red tunic and blue mantle, in a break of Glory of golden tones and surrounded by clouds and angel musicians and singers, dressed in tunics, cloths, etc. and others naked, and represented both as small children and in the form of adolescents. Iconographically, two main themes are mixed in the work: the Coronation of Mary (note the two angels situated above the Virgin's head), and the Assumption (doctrine developed in the Western Church from the 12th century, according to tradition by Saint Augustine, which later became a dogma of Faith, and which maintains that, at the end of her life, Mary was taken up to heaven in body and soul). This oil painting is inspired by two works entitled “Coronation of the Virgin”, one preserved in the Bonnat Museum in Baoyona (nicknamed “the Guide”) and another in the National Gallery in London. These, in turn, follow the composition of a painting in the Prado Museum in Madrid by the same master, also entitled “Coronation of the Virgin” and painted around 1602 or 1603.
· Size: 59,5x4,5x77 cms. int 49,5x67 cms.
ANTIQUES
Ref.: ZF0974
