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  • When Mary Started Rising: The Assumption in Baroque Art

    When Mary Started Rising: The Assumption in Baroque Art

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    Today the Catholic Church celebrates the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. One of the fascinating things about the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is that it became one of the most important subjects in Catholic art despite not being described in the Bible. The New Testament never recounts Mary’s final moments on earth or her…

  • Baroque Art at the Met

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    Overview The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) in New York is one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive art museums, containing over two million works that span 5,000 years of global artistic history. Founded in 1870 and located along Fifth Avenue beside Central Park, it showcases everything from ancient Egyptian monuments to modern…

  • Dormition of the Virgin

    Dormition of the Virgin

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    Dormition of the Virgin (c1612) Carlo Saraceni. After the Carmelites rejected Caravaggio’s intensely realistic take on the Dormition of the Virgin, Saraceni was commissioned to create a new version. His interpretation draws on Northern Italian influences, with a Renaissance-inspired color palette and carefully arranged figures. Yet the work remains grounded in naturalism and in its…

  • The Assumption

    The Assumption

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    Today the (Western) Catholic church celebrates the Assumption of Mary. Tucked inside Rome’s Santa Maria del Popolo is the Cerasi Chapel, renowned for its two striking Caravaggio masterpieces. Yet above the altar, quietly commanding attention, hangs a third treasure: Assumption of the Virgin Mary (1600), a luminous work by Annibale Carracci that completes the chapel’s…

  • Caravaggio’s Death of the Virgin Rejection

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    Much has been written about Caravaggio’s Death of the Virgin and its rejection by the Barefoot Carmelites. However, did you know that the painter chosen replace Caravaggio was also rejected on his first attempt? The Venetian painter Carlo Saraceni also depicted the Virgin dead; though she appeared less lifeless than in Caravaggio’s version. He modified…