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Santa Maria del Popolo - Carracci's The Assumption of the Virgin
The famous Cerasi Chapel contains the Italian Baroque master, Annibale Carracci's, 'Assumption of the Virgin'.
Carracci competed with the major artists for this altarpiece, the prize commission for the chapel. The Virgin awkwardly rises through a cramped crowd of apostles, levitated by half-a dozen cherubim.
The Assumption, the Catholic doctorine that the mother of Jesus, Mary was transported into Heaven with her body and soul united -has been a subject of Christian art for centuries.
Although only infallibly defined defined as dogma in 1950 by Pius XII, stories of the assumption of Mary into heaven have circulated since at least the 5th century.
The Assumption is important to many Catholics as the Virgin Mary's heavenly birthday (the day that Mary was received into Heaven). Her acceptance into the glory of Heaven is seen by them as the symbol of the promise made by Jesus to all enduring Christians that they too will be received into paradise
Santa Maria del Popolo - Carracci's The Assumption of the Virgin
The famous Cerasi Chapel contains the Italian Baroque master, Annibale Carracci's, 'Assumption of the Virgin'.
Carracci competed with the major artists for this altarpiece, the prize commission for the chapel. The Virgin awkwardly rises through a cramped crowd of apostles, levitated by half-a dozen cherubim.
The Assumption, the Catholic doctorine that the mother of Jesus, Mary was transported into Heaven with her body and soul united -has been a subject of Christian art for centuries.
Although only infallibly defined defined as dogma in 1950 by Pius XII, stories of the assumption of Mary into heaven have circulated since at least the 5th century.
The Assumption is important to many Catholics as the Virgin Mary's heavenly birthday (the day that Mary was received into Heaven). Her acceptance into the glory of Heaven is seen by them as the symbol of the promise made by Jesus to all enduring Christians that they too will be received into paradise