File:Rubens, Peter Paul - The Assumption of the Virgin - ca. 1611-1612.jpg

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Painting of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin by Peter Paul Rubens

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Peter Paul Rubens: The Assumption of the Virgin  wikidata:Q28035512 reasonator:Q28035512
Artist
Peter Paul Rubens  (1577–1640)  wikidata:Q5599 s:it:Autore:Pieter Paul Rubens q:en:Peter Paul Rubens
 
Peter Paul Rubens
Alternative names
Rubens, Pierre Paul Rubens, Pieter Paul Rubens, Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Description Flemish painter, sculptor, drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death 28 June 1577 Edit this at Wikidata 30 May 1640 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Siegen Antwerp
Work period 16th century
date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
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Work location
Antwerp (1589-1600), Mantua (9 May 1600-1608), Spain (1603), Antwerp (1608-1640), Netherlands (1612), Paris (23 May 1623-29 June 1623, 4 February 1625-9 June 1625), Calais (November 1626), Paris (December 1626), City of Brussels (1627), Netherlands (10 July 1627-6 August 1627), Spain (26 August 1628-29 April 1629), London (18 May 1629-23 March 1630), City of Brussels (1631), Netherlands (November 1631), Affligem (September 1634)
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creator QS:P170,Q5599
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Title
The Assumption of the Virgin Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"The Assumption of the Virgin Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"The Assumption of the Virgin Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lit,"Assunzione di Maria"
label QS:Lde,"Mariä Himmelfahrt"
label QS:Lfr,"Assomption de Marie"
label QS:Lnl,"Maria-Tenhemelopneming"
Part of The assumption of Mary Edit this at Wikidata
Object type painting / oil sketch Edit this at Wikidata
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Description

Obviously the nuns of the church did not make a simple choice of one or the other design, but went rather for a mix-and-match of elements: the upper half largely following the oil sketch in the Royal Collection and the lower half that in the Hermitage. The iconography differs: this is an Assumption; the Hermitage painting a Coronation with music-making angels; this one has a sarcophagus tomb, that a cave in the rock. The most interesting variation occurs in the lighting: the Hermitage panel shows a torch-lit, nearly night scene with a golden heaven; this panel shows a naturally lit evening scene with an azure heaven. Blue is the keynote colour.

The other talent, which Rubens would wish his patrons to appreciate here, is variety. Twelve apostles witness the same event and yet Rubens finds twelve different postures and emotions for them to adopt.
Date between circa 1611 and circa 1612
date QS:P,+1611-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1611-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1612-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Medium oil on panel Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 102.1 cm (40.1 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 66.3 cm (26.1 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+102.1U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+66.3U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1459037
Accession number
RCIN 405335 (Royal Collection) Edit this at Wikidata
Notes This was one of two presentation oil sketches (modelli) which Rubens made in 1611 in a bid to secure the commission to paint the Assumption of the Virgin for the high altar of the Jesuit Church now Charles Borromeo, Antwerp. The other is in the Hermitage Museum; the final altarpiece, which Rubens did not deliver until 1620, is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
References
Source/Photographer Peter Paul Rubens
Other versions
  • other sketch, Hermitage
    other sketch, Hermitage

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