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Assumption of the Virgin
Luca Giordano (Italian, 1634 - 1705)
1680–1700
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, white gouache, black chalk on cream laid paper
- Classification
- Figures (representations)
- Dimensions
- 30.1 x 20.7 cm (11 7/8 x 8 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
The figure of the Virgin held aloft by putti; below her are figures kneeling in prayer. Verso: head of a woman and child.
