Assumption of the Virgin (cupola fresco, Sant’Andrea della Valle)

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Assumption of the Virgin (cupola fresco, Sant’Andrea della Valle) is a monumental Baroque ceiling fresco in Rome depicting the Virgin Mary’s ascent to heaven in a dramatic illusionistic style.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Baroque artwork
ceiling fresco
religious painting
architecturalElementDecorated cupola
artForm mural painting
artHistoricalPeriod 17th century
artisticGoal create illusion of infinite space
associatedWith Feast of the Assumption NERFINISHED
Marian devotion
colorPalette luminous and saturated colors
composition vertically ascending composition
country Italy
culturalContext Counter-Reformation Catholicism
depictionType heavenly vision
depicts Assumption of the Virgin Mary NERFINISHED
Virgin Mary
angels
heavenly glory
emotionalTone ecstatic and triumphant
function devotional image
liturgical decoration
genre sacred art
iconography Marian iconography
lightingEffect dramatic chiaroscuro
locatedIn Italy
Lazio
Rome
Sant’Andrea della Valle NERFINISHED
locationType church dome
medium fresco
movement Baroque
narrativeMoment moment of Mary’s bodily assumption into heaven
perspective illusionistic perspective from below
religion Roman Catholicism
setting interior of a church
style di sotto in sù
illusionistic ceiling painting
quadratura
subject Virgin Mary’s ascent to heaven
technique buon fresco
theme glorification of the Virgin Mary
triumph over death
visualEffect opening of the dome to the heavens

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Giovanni Lanfranco notableWork Assumption of the Virgin (cupola fresco, Sant’Andrea della Valle)