File:Domenikos Theotokópoulos, called El Greco - The Assumption of the Virgin - Google Art Project.jpg
kidzsearch.com > wiki > Domenikos Theotokópoulos, called El Greco - The Assumption of the Virgin - Google Art Project.jpg
Size of this preview: 307 × 600 pixels. Other resolutions: 123 × 240 pixels | 245 × 480 pixels | 393 × 768 pixels | 524 × 1,024 pixels | 2,762 × 5,395 pixels.
Original file (2,762 × 5,395 pixels, file size: 2.94 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below.
|
Summary
El Greco: The Assumption of the Virgin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q301 Details on Google Art Project |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Title |
Assumption of the Virgin
label QS:Les,"Asunción de la Virgen"
label QS:Lfr,"Assomption de la Vierge"
label QS:Lru,"Успение Богородицы"
label QS:Lde,"Mariä Himmelfahrt"
label QS:Lpt,"Assunção da Virgem"
label QS:Lzh,"假設的處女"
label QS:Lja,"聖母被昇天"
label QS:Lsv,"Antaganden om Jungfru"
label QS:Lpl,"Wniebowzięcie NMP"
label QS:Luk,"Успіння Богородиці"
label QS:Lit,"Assunzione della Vergine"
label QS:Len,"Assumption of the Virgin"
label QS:Leo,"Supozo de la Virgulino"
label QS:Lmk,"Успение на Пресв. Богородица"
label QS:Lhe,"הנחה של הבתולה" |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Part of | Altarpiece of the church of the monastery of Santo Domingo el Antiguo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | religious art | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
from 1577 until 1579 date QS:P571,+1577-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1577-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1579-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 4,032 mm (13.22 ft); width: 2,118 mm (83.38 in) dimensions QS:P2048,4032U174789 dimensions QS:P2049,2118U174789 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q239303 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current location |
Level Second Level (Details of level on Google Art Project) room Gallery 211 (Details of room on Google Art Project) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accession number |
1906.99 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Object history |
English: Commissioned 1577 by Don Diego de Castilla for the convent church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo, Toledo; installed with other paintings in the main retable by September 1579; sold c. 1830 to the Infante Don Sebastiàn Gabriel de Borbón y Braganza (died 1875), Madrid and later Pau, France, but confiscated from him by the Spanish government and installed in the Museo Nacional de la Trinidad, Madrid, in 1835 [Lavice 1864 recorded that the Assumption was on display in the Museo Nacional de Pinturas, but this cannot be confirmed]; returned to Don Sebastiàn in 1861; his estate in custody of the Spanish government, 1875-87 [see María Teresa Baratech Zelama, "La testamentario del Infante Don Sebastiàn Gabriel de Borbón y Braganza," Archivo español de arte 62 (1989), pp. 372-77 for the status of his estate]; his widow, the Infanta María Cristina de Borbón (died 1902), Aranjuez and Madrid; offered for sale, Madrid, October 1902, no. 2, but bought in, then lent by the Infanta's heirs to the Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1902-04 [see Cossío 1908, p. 594, no. 279]; purchased from them by Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, for 100,000 frs. ($17,000), October 1904, with funds provided by Henry O. Havemeyer, New York [see Havemeyer 1961, p. 155]; sold to the Art Institute, July 17, 1906. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Exhibition history |
English: Pau, Salons de l'ancien Asile de Pau, Tableaux appartenant aux héritiers de feu Msg. l'Enfant don Sébastien de Bourbon et Bragance, 1876, no. 668. Madrid, Museo Nacional de Pintura y Escultura, Exposición de las obras de Domenico Thetocopuli, llamado El Greco, 1902, no. 6. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 169, pl. 25. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 70. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inscriptions |
English: Inscribed on paper at lower right in Greek: (Domenikos Theotokopoulos, Cretan, displayed this in 1577) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes | More info at museum site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
References | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | 0wG7A7al0WzGWg at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other versions |
Licensing
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. |
Items portrayed in this file
depicts
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|
current | 14:30, 4 October 2012 | 2,762 × 5,395 (2.94 MB) | DcoetzeeBot | =={{int:filedesc}}== {{Google Art Project |commons_artist= |commons_title= |commons_description= |commons_date={{other date|-|1577|79}} |commons_medium= |commons_dimensions= |commons_institution= |commons_location= |commons_references= |commons_object_... |
File usage
The following page uses this file: