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The Assumption of Mary Magdalene
1630s17th century
127.7 cm x 105.3 cm (50 1/4 in. x 41 7/16 in.)
Riccardo Taurini (Milan, Italy, 1607-1608 - 1678, Milan, Italy) Primary
Object Type:
painting
Artist Nationality:
Europe, Italian
Medium and Support:
Oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017
Accession Number:
2017.1384
According to "The Golden Legend," Mary Magdalene spent her last thirty years as a hermit in a cave in Sainte-Baume, a mountain ridge in southern France. Seven times a day angels carried her aloft to heaven, where she glimpsed her coming reward. The representation of this ecstatic scene emerged during the Counter-Reformation and became common in Baroque art as a way to encourage the veneration of saints in the Catholic Church.
The pronounced foreshortening of the saint’s left foot and the angel figures indicates the painting was originally placed high above the viewer’s eye level, probably over an altar.
The pronounced foreshortening of the saint’s left foot and the angel figures indicates the painting was originally placed high above the viewer’s eye level, probably over an altar.
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