RUBENS, Peter Paul
(b. 1577, Siegen, d. 1640, Antwerpen)

Assumption of the Virgin

c. 1637
Oil on canvas, 501 x 351 cm
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

This huge painting was commissioned for the high altar of the Carthusian church in Brussels. Rubens addressed the subject of the Assumption several times before, the painting in the Liechtenstein Museum is the last version from the painter's late period.




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