'Modello' for the Assumption of the Virgin. 마우리츠하위스(Mauritshuis). 덴하그(Den Haag, 헤이그:Hague)

'Modello' for the Assumption of the Virgin.

마우리츠하위스(Mauritshuis).

덴하그(Den Haag, 헤이그:Hague). 네덜란드(Netherland)

Peter Paul Rubens

'Modello' for the Assumption of the Virgin

c. 1622 - 1625

This is not a finished painting, but an oil sketch. Rubens made it as a ‘modello’, or design, for an enormous altarpiece in the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp. It was intended to show his plans to his patrons. Rubens depicted the Virgin’s ascent into heaven as a swirling movement. From the stone sarcophagus, the Virgin floats heavenwards in a cloud of angels, where she is to be crowned. Dynamism is added to the scene by Rubens’ rapid, powerful brushstrokes.

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