assumption of the virgin
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Assumption of the Virgin
Egid Quirin Asam
Location and Time
• Kloster Rohr (monastery church)
• Rohr, Germany• 1723
Background
• Inspired by Late Baroque architecture from Rome (Bernini’s Ecstasy of Saint Teresa)
• All about illusion and spectacle • It is also supposed to represent a
theatre setting
Characteristics
• Yellow glass window to represent the heavens
• Gold painted rays off of the heavens and dove
• Different textures (rays, cloth, gilded cloth, stone)
• Gilded Mary and ascending angels• Theatre scenery effect/staged feel
Borrowing From Theatre• Baroque and Late Baroque theatre =
ornate and luxuriously ornamented• Idea was to create magic and illusions
such as a 3D looking backdrop• Church’s idea was to create the depiction
of a scene in the church
Just for fun . . .
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