[47] Angels commonly carry her heavenward where she is to be crowned by Christ, while the Apostles below surround her empty tomb as they stare up in awe. [3] This doctrine was dogmatically defined by Pope Pius XII on 1 November 1950, in the apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus by exercising papal infallibility. Ignacio de Beryes, Domenicos Theotocopoulos, El Greco, Barcelona, 1944, p. 17. ed. 20–21 (ill.). Long, “El Greco’s Altarpieces: Artistic Ambition and Legal Frustration,” in El Greco: Ambition and Defiance, Rebecca J. 40 (ill.). 23. That does not mean, however, that she is dissociated from the rest of humanity and placed in a wholly different category: for we all hope to share one day in that same glory of the Resurrection of the Body that she enjoys even now.[32]. Many theologians note by way of comparison that in the Catholic Church the Assumption is dogmatically defined, whilst in the Eastern Orthodox tradition the Dormition is less dogmatically than liturgically and mystically defined. José Álvarez Lopera, El Greco: La obra esencial, Madrid, 1993, pp. 161, 163–66, vol. The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin is kept on 8 September. In many places, religious parades and popular festivals are held to celebrate this day. The hamlet of Praha, Texas holds a festival during which its population swells from approximately 25 to 5,000 people. 6–12, 17, 24, fig. It measures 228.6 by 377.2 cms (7ft 6ins by 12ft 5ins). After living in Venice and Rome, where he absorbed the late Mannerist style, the Greek-born artist settled in the Spanish city of Toledo in 1577 to work on the high altar of the convent church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo. The earliest known use of the Dormition is found on a sarcophagus in the crypt of a church in Zaragoza in Spain dated c.330. 6, 8, 10, figs. cat., Guillaune Kientz, ed., (Paris: RMN Editions, 2019), 138 cat. 1905 Schell Ave., PO Box 40. ($17,000), October 1904, with funds provided by Henry O. Havemeyer, New York [see Havemeyer 1961, p. 155]; sold to the Art Institute, July 17, 1906. Here the Virgin floats upward, supported on the crescent moon that is symbolic of her purity, while the boldly modeled heads of the crowd of apostles gathered around her empty tomb express amazement and concern. The Art Institute of Chicago, 100 Masterpieces, Chicago, 1978, pp. The Latin Catholic Feast of the Assumption is celebrated on 15 August and the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholics celebrate the Dormition of the Mother of God (or Dormition of the Theotokos, the falling asleep of the Mother of God) on the same date, preceded by a 14-day fast period. Open today 10–11 a.m. members | 11 a.m.–6 p.m. public. F[rancisco] J[avier] Sánchez Cantón, El Greco, Milan, 1961, p. 3. ed., London, 1977, pp. 1, 5. Paul Guinard, El Greco, trans. 147, 154–55, pl. Manuel B. Cossío, El Greco, Madrid, 1908, pp. The Resurrection of the Body ... has in her case been anticipated and is already an accomplished fact. MA] 70. One of the most important paintings of El Greco’s career, The Assumption of the Virgin has become an iconic work in the Art Institute’s collection. Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen et al., Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection, exh. Assumption of the Virgin is a richly textured work, thanks to Titian's preference for more free-flowing painting as opposed to the more refined technique practiced by many other Italian artists. Madrid, Museo Nacional de Pintura y Escultura, Exposición de las obras de Domenico Theotocópouli, llamado El Greco, April 30 - July 31, 1902, cat. The Assumption of the Virgin Mary in art has been a popular subject, especially since the 12th century. 136–37, fig. 95–96, 286–88, pl. 260–62; reprinted in Miscellaneen aus drei Jahrhunderten spanischen Kunstlebens, vol. Mercedes Orihuela, ed., Museo de la Trinidad (bienes desarmortizados), vol. In Eastern Orthodox churches following the Julian Calendar, the feast day of Assumption of Mary falls on 28 August. The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, Chicago, 1925, pp. The Art Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1988, pp. Rebecca J. 15. David Davies, “The Relationship of El Greco’s Altarpieces to the Mass of the Roman Rite,” in The Altarpiece in the Renaissance, ed. For this reason we believe that the Virgin Mary, Begetter of God, the most pure bed and temple of the Holy Spirit, that is, her most holy body, was carried to heaven by angels. About The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church - Geneva, OH Visit website. 44–45, fig. Being free of Original Sin and its … ed., 1970, vol. 40–42 (ill.), 281; , rev. Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 22 (May 1927), pp. Xavier de Salas, “Más valoraciones románticas del Greco y nota al pintor Aparicio y sus plagios,” Clavileño, revista de la Asociación internacional de hispanismo 5, 27 (1954), p. 29. pp. cat., Guillaune Kientz, ed., (Paris: RMN Editions, 2019), 42. 28, 30, 36, 105, 142, pl. Frederick Albert Gutheim, “El Greco and Chicago,” Survey Graphic 23 (1934), pp. 285–86. Parma’s leading citizens had commissioned the fresco in 1522, shortly after the papacy liberated the city from the French king’s occupying forces. The painting gives a luminous vision of the Blessed Virgin, faithfully presents a venerable tradition, and offers a small foretaste of Heaven on Earth. [15] "No one knows her end," he concludes. Janis Tomlinson, From El Greco to Goya: Painting in Spain, 1561–1828, New York, 1997, pp. ed., 1920, p. 21, pl. Francisco de B[orja] San Román [y Fernández], “Documentos del Greco, referentes a los cuadros de Santo Domingo el Antiguo,” Archivo español del arte y arqueología 10 (1934), p. 8. 81, 83, pls. The church of this ancient Cistercian convent was being rebuilt as the funerary chapel of a pious widow, Doña Maria de Silva. Francesco Botticini's (1446–1497) Assumption of the Virgin has always posed a problem for The National Gallery in London. cat., Barcelona, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, 1996, p. 106. Frank Rutter, El Greco, New York, 1930, p. 28. 1, pp. “The New El Greco Frame,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 1 (1908), pp. Peter Humfrey and Martin Kemp, Cambridge, 1990, pp. Guillermo J. de Guillén García, “Domenico Theotocópuli (El Greco): Sus cuadros,” Revista de la Asociación artístico arqueológica barcelonesa 3 (1899), p. 243. Nicos Hadjinicolaou, Rethymno, Crete, 1999, pp. Vizconde de Palazuelos, Toledo: Guía histórico-práctica, Toledo, 1890, pp. The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world. Katharine Baetjer, “El Greco,” Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 39, 1 (1981), pp. Inscribed on paper at lower right in Greek: (Domenikos Theotokopoulos, Cretan, displayed this in 1577), 403.2 × 211.8 cm (158 3/4 × 83 3/4 in.) "The Assumption of the Virgin by Borgognone." 171–72 (ill.). For churches with this dedication, see, "Saint Mary of the Assumption" redirects here. cat., Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 2001, pp. The earliest traditions say that Mary's life ended in Jerusalem (see "Mary's Tomb"). Albert F[rederick] Calvert and C[atherine] Gasquoine Hartley, El Greco, New York, 1909, pp. 215, 222, 226, 231, pl. The Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings, Chicago, 1920, p. 20, no. Pau, Salons de l’ancien Asile de Pau, Tableaux appartenant aux héritiers de feu Msg. Finally, he mentioned in the next paragraph "that woman clothed with the sun [Revelation 12:1–2] whom John the Apostle contemplated on the Island of Patmos" was support for the defining of this dogmatic doctrine for Catholics. 25. 75–76. 33–34 (ill.). 1. Joseph Focarino, exh. [citation needed] The Church documents are silent on this matter and instead rely upon other sources and arguments as the basis for the doctrine. José Álvarez Lopera, De Ceán á Cossío: La fortuna critica del Greco en el siglo XIX, Madrid, 1987, pp. cat., Toledo Museum of Art, 1941, p. 66, fig. José Camón Aznar, Dominico Greco, Madrid, 1950, vol. [22] Theological debate about the Assumption continued, following the Reformation. Halldor Soehner, “Greco in Spanien,” Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst, 3rd ser., 8 (1957), pp. 283. 17–18, 229, 233, 238, 243, fig. Jane Brenton, London, 1973, pp. 1214, pl. 288–89. 13. 27, 75. The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, Chicago, 1961, pp. [citation needed] In 1950 Pope Pius XII defined it as dogma for the Catholic Church. (Paris: RMN Editions, 2019), 5 (detail ill.), 7 (detail ill.), 8 (detail ill.), 232. cat., New York, Frick Collection, 2001, p. 36. 48, 50, pls. 67, 104–05. 621–22. 307–08, fig. 299 (ill.). 13. Long, ed., (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), 66. 116–18, 122, 135, figs. How you can use this image . Celebrations include liturgies and votive offerings. 73; Art Institute of Chicago, El Greco: Ambition and Defiance, March 7–June 21, 2020, cat. For works of art with this title, see, Ludwig Ott, Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma (Rockford: Tan, 1974), pp. 22; 2nd ed., 1949, pp. Precedent to this, he cited many passages that have been offered in support of this teaching. 30–33. Lorinda Munson Bryant, What Pictures to See in America, New York, 1915, pp. 14, 193, Keith Christiansen, “El Greco in Italy,” in El Greco: Ambition and Defiance, exh. cat., Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, 1986, pp. 2, p. 20, no. He concludes: "for Mary, death, in consequence of her freedom from original sin and from personal sin, was not a consequence of punishment of sin. 17–19. Correggio’s Assumption of the Virgin, a vortex of fluttering drapery and naked limbs, rose above him. 25. The Assumption of the Virgin was the first major work created by Rosso Fiorentino during his formative years in Andrea Del Sarto's workshop. Image source Wikimedia Commons. Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice, Italy. The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, Chicago,1932, pp. 3. 41, figs. Paul Lafond, “Domenikos Theotokopuli, dit Le Greco,” Les Arts 58 (Oct. 1906), pp. ‘The Assumption of the Virgin’ was created in 1670 by Bartolome Esteban Murillo in Baroque style. 24, no. Williams, Paul (2007). Bernardino de Pantorba, 70 obras maestras del Greco, Madrid, 1953, p. 50, pl. 11 (ill.), 24–25; rev. 3–4. 12; 3rd ed., 1954, pp. Samuel Edward Cook, Sketches in Spain during the Years 1829, 30, and 31, London, 1834, p. 157. 6. David A. Hardy, exh. Arthur Symons, “A Study at Toledo,” Monthly Review 2, 6 (1901), pp. 138. Explore {{searchView.params.phrase}} by color family “El Greco Moves In,” Arts & Antiques (June 2020): 24. 184, 223-234, 240. The dogma of the Assumption followed from the 1854 definition of Mary's Immaculate Conception (her freedom from original sin) and both developed from the recognition of her status as the Mother of God, meaning that she, like Jesus, was without sin, preserved from corruption, resurrected, received into heaven, and a recipient of corporeal glory. Mercedes Agueda, “La colección de pinturas del infante Don Sebastián Gabriel,” Boletín del Museo del Prado 3 (1982), p. 106, no. James Emmons, New York, 1956, p. 18. Juan de la Encina, Domenico Greco, Mexico City, 1944, pp. Ella S. Siple, “Museums in Chicago,” Burlington Magazine 58 (1931), p. 108. 34. 6. Éva Nyerges, “La Madeleine pénitente du Greco à Budapest,” Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts 76 (1992), p. 51, fig. 23f (ill.). Learn about the painting’s origins, its journey to the museum, and a recent endeavor to clean and preserve the work for future visitors. Teri J. Edelstein, Chicago, 1993, p. 24 (ill.). 209–210. 1–2; repr., New York, 1990. Marcia B. Louis Viardot, Les Musées d’Espagne, Paris, 1860, p. 159. The Assumption of Mary is symbolised in the Fleur-de-lys Madonna. Yasunari Kitaura, “El Greco: La antigüedad encontrada a través del Renacimiento italiano,” in El Greco in Italy and Italian Art, ed. ed., 1943, p. 142. Since then, Jesus arose to Heaven to fulfill this prophecy, it follows that the woman would have a similar end since she shared this enmity with Satan. 2, 13, 41–44, 163, fig. Views differ within Protestantism, with those with a theology closer to Catholicism sometimes believing in a bodily assumption whilst most Protestants do not. Here the Virgin floats upward, supported on the crescent moon that is symbolic of her purity, while the boldly modeled heads of the crowd of apostles gathered … 102–03. Antonio Weyler, “Reflexiones sobre El Greco,” Arte español 10 (1929), pp. Assumption of the Virgin (1516–18) by Titian. Long, ed., (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), 18, 26. Bishop Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia, in: Festal Menaion [London: Faber and Faber, 1969], p. 64. 142 & 144 (ill.), Leticia Ruiz Gómez, Domenikos Theotokopooulos, El Greco: 1541-1614 (Madrid: Mapfre, 2013), pp. Jonathan Brown, New Haven, 1996, pp. Public Life Assumption Day is a public holiday in countries such as Austria, Belgium, Chile, Croatia, France , parts of Germany , Guatemala, Greece, Italy , Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland (the holiday may be regional or limited to certain groups in Switzerland). Hannah Lynch, Toledo: The Story of an Old Spanish Capital, London, 1898, pp. 257–58, fig. Albert Boime, “The Americanization of El Greco,” in El Greco of Crete, ed. [47], The bodily taking up of the Virgin Mary into Heaven at the end of her earthly life, "Assunta" redirects here. 27. Later in life, however, his style evolved to favor subtler shades of color and highly lifelike shadowing. 6. 13, 30, pl. Jonathan Brown and Richard George Mann, Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries, Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1990, p. 42. In certain Anglo-Catholic parishes this feast is called the Immaculate Conception. Charles Blanc, introduction to Sébastien de Bourbon, “Les huiles et des vernis employés pour la peinture,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1st ser., 15 (1863), p. 176. Sweet, Spanish Painting, exh. Assumption of the Virgin is an Italian Renaissance Marble Sculpture created by Donatello in 1427. However, it seems fitting that Mary's body, which was by nature mortal, should be, in conformity with that of her Divine Son, subject to the general law of death". Richard G. Mann, “El Greco’s Altarpieces for the Chapel of Saint Joseph: Devotion, Politics, and Artistic Innovation in Counter-Reformation Toledo,” in The Word Made Image: Religion, Art, and Architecture in Spain and Spanish America, 1500–1600, ed. 3. El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos)Greek, active in Spain, 1541–1614. 7. 6–7, 12, pl. 1–2. 125. l’Enfant don Sébastien de Bourbon et Bragance, September 1876, cat. 57; reprinted, 1947, p. 841. 67–68, 77, 342, no. Why should Mary die if she was free from Original Sin and its stain? The second half of the psalm says that the loss will be recompensed in the New Covenant, and so it is hopefully prayed, "Arise, O Lord, into thy resting place: thou and the ark, which thou hast sanctified" (v. 8). In Guatemala, it is observed in Guatemala City and in the town of Santa Maria Nebaj, both of which claim her as their patron saint. Spanish ed., trans. In this passage Paul alludes to Genesis 3:15 (in addition to the primary reference of Psalm 8:6), where it is prophesied that the seed of the woman will crush Satan with his feet: "I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel." The assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven has long been held as an important Catholic belief. Daniel Catton Rich, “Die Ausstellung ‘Fünf Jahrhunderte der Frühmalerei’ in Chicago,” Pantheon 12 (1933), p. 381. Antonio Palamino de Castro y Velasco, El museo pictórico y escala óptica, vol. Lionello Venturi, The Sixteenth Century: From Leonardo to El Greco, New York, 1956, pp. [39] Michel Florisoone, “La Mystique plastique du Greco et les antécédents de son style,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th ser., 49 (1957), p. 36, fig. It was during this time that the subject of much of the art created at the time was of a religious theme and this painting was one that the critics of … Francisco de Borja de San Román y Fernández, El Greco en Toledo, Madrid, 1910, p. 31; reprinted, Toledo, 1982, p. 45. 365–66. 16–17, 44, 51, pl. 142, 144, vol. Information about image downloads and licensing is available here. Assumption Day is also an important holiday in France where the Virgin Mary has been the patron saint since 1638. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago, London, 1970, pp. 40–42 (ill.), 282.. Damián Bayón, “El Greco: Creador de conjuntos plásticos,” Colóquio 5 (1971), pp. 1. The Assumption of the Virgin. Many Catholics believe that she did not die at all, but was assumed directly into Heaven. Rodolfo Pallucchini, “L’Art Institute di Chicago,” L’illustrazione del medico 33 (Feb. 1966), p. 11 (ill.). 54–56; trans. The dogma teaches that Mary, who was without sin, was taken, body and soul, into the glory of heaven. A[ureliano] de Beruete y Moret, Conferencias de arte, Madrid, 1924, pp. 238, 251, quote: "Where Anglican writers discuss the doctrine of the Assumption, it is either rejected or held to be of the. The Catholic Church adopted this date as a Holy Day of Obligation to commemorate the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a reference to the belief in a real, physical elevation of her sinless soul and incorrupt body into Heaven. Pál Kelemen, El Greco Revisited: Candia, Venice, Toledo, New York, 1961, pp. By the 7th century, a variation emerged, according to which one of the apostles, often identified as St Thomas, was not present at the death of Mary but his late arrival precipitates a reopening of Mary's tomb, which is found to be empty except for her grave clothes. Sweet, “Tintoretto and El Greco,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 44 (1950), p. 23. [22] St. John Damascene records the following: St. Juvenal, Bishop of Jerusalem, at the Council of Chalcedon (451), made known to the Emperor Marcian and Pulcheria, who wished to possess the body of the Mother of God, that Mary died in the presence of all the Apostles, but that her tomb, when opened upon the request of St. Thomas, was found empty; wherefrom the Apostles concluded that the body was taken up to heaven. Neil Harris, Chicago’s Dream, a World’s Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1893–1993, ed. Nicolás Magan, “Biografía española: El Greco,” Seminario pintoresco español 2 (Sept. 8, 1844), pp. 156–57, pl. Born in the Republic of Venice in 1488-90, his vivid application of colour had a profound influence on the artistic world. 95–96, no. El Greco Exhibition, exh. The belief was not defined as dogma, however, until 1950 by Pope Pius XII. Williams, Paul (2007). [21] This incident is depicted in many later paintings of the Assumption. José Gudiol, Doménikos Theotokópoulos, El Greco, 1541–1614, Barcelona, 1971, pp. 22. 10. Guillaume Kientz, (Paris: RMN Editions, 2019), 29–30, 36. 21f (ill.). M[anuel] B. Cossío, “Más documentos inéditos para la histora del arte español,” La lectura: Revista de ciencias y de artes 5, 53 (1905), p. 2. Thomas Connors, “Master Plans: The Art Institute takes a good hard look at the great El Greco,” Splash Magazine (March 2020), 13 (color ill.). José Álvarez Lopera, Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1999, pp. [16], The Dormition/Assumption of Mary makes its first appearance in two apocryphal texts from the third and fourth centuries, the Liber Requiei Mariae ("Book of Mary's Repose"), and the "Six Books Dormition Apocryphon". August L. Mayer, El Greco, Berlin, 1931, pp. 78, 91–92, fig. 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Ludwig Zottmann, “Zur Kunst von ‘El Greco,’” Die christliche Kunst 3 (1906/7), pp. Some businesses close on that day in heavily francophone parts of New Brunswick, Canada. José Milicua, ed., El Greco: La seva revaloració pel Modernisme català, exh. Celebrated every year on August 15, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary commemorates the death of Mary and her bodily assumption into Heaven, before her body could begin to decay—a foretaste of our own bodily resurrection at the end of time. 105–11. [4] While the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church believe in the Dormition of the Mother of God (Dormition of the Theotokos or "the Falling Asleep of the Mother of God"),[5] whether Mary had a physical death has not been dogmatically defined. , 163, fig juan de La Trinidad ( bienes desarmortizados ), (... Refers to the Collections, Chicago,1935, p. 106 Les Procédés du Greco, exh 1990! Mary falls on 28 August on 15 August Theotokopoulos, “ Museums in Chicago, 1998 pp! 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