Assumption of the Virgin (Moretto)

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Assumption of the Virgin is a 1524–1526 oil on canvas painting by Moretto da Brescia, displayed as the high altarpiece in the Old Cathedral in Brescia.

Considered as the main masterpiece of the artist's youth, he was paid for it on 5 November 1526 according to the Liber bollettarum in the cathedral's archive.^[1]

References[edit]

^ Pier Virgilio Begni Redona, pag. 188

Bibliography (in Italian)[edit]

Giulio Antonio Averoldi, Le scelte pitture di Brescia additate al forestiere, Brescia 1700
Camillo Boselli, Appunti al "Catalogo delle opere d'arte nelle chiese di Brescia" in "Commentari dell'Ateneo di Brescia per gli anni 1942-1945", Brescia 1942-1945
Camillo Boselli, Il Moretto, 1498-1554, in "Commentari dell'Ateneo di Brescia per l'anno 1954 - Supplemento", Brescia 1954
Pietro Da Ponte, L'opera del Moretto, Brescia 1898
György Gombosi, Moretto da Brescia, Basel 1943
Pompeo Molmenti, Il Moretto da Brescia, Firenze 1898
Francesco Paglia, Il Giardino della Pittura, Brescia 1660
Gaetano Panazza, Camillo Boselli, Pitture in Brescia dal Duecento all'Ottocento, catalogo della mostra, Brescia 1946
Pier Virgilio Begni Redona, Alessandro Bonvicino - Il Moretto da Brescia, Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 1988

Moretto da Brescia

Paintings

Enthroned Madonna and Child with Saint James the Great and Saint Jerome (1517)
Christ with the Cross (1518)
The Dead Christ Adored by Saint Jerome and Saint Dorothy (1520–1521)
Holy Cross Standard (1520–1521)
Standard of Our Lady of Mercy (1520–1522)
Salvation Triptych (1521–1524 or 1527–1528)
Our Lady of Mount Carmel (c. 1522)
Assumption of the Virgin (1524–1526)
Portrait of a Man (1526)
Supper at Emmaus (c. 1526)
Madonna and Child with Saint Roch and Saint Sebastian (c. 1528)
Orzinuovi Altarpiece (1525–1530}
Lament over the Dead Christ (1526–1530)
Sant'Eufemia Altarpiece (1526–1530)
Assumption Altarpiece (1529–1530)
St Anthony of Padua with Two Saints (1530)
St Justina of Padua with a Donor (c. 1530)
Madonna and Child with Saint Martin and Saint Catherine (c. 1530)
Massacre of the Innocents (1531–1532)
Saint Anthony Abbot (1530–1534)
Coronation of the Virgin Altarpiece (c. 1534)
The Deaf-Mute Filippo Viotti's Vision of the Virgin Mary (c. 1534)
Annunciation (1535–1540)
The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr (1535–1540)
Portrait of a Gentleman with a Letter (1535–1540)
Chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista Organ Case (c. 1535)
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints (1536–1537)
Rovelli Altarpiece (1539)
Adoration of the Shepherds with Saints Nazarius and Celsus (1540)
Madonna and Child with Saints (Verona, 1540)
Salomé (1540)
Pralboino Altarpiece (1540–1545)
Christ in Glory with Saint Peter and Saint Paul (c. 1540)
Christ with the Eucharist and Saints Cosmas and Damian (c. 1540)
Madonna and Child with Four Doctors of the Church (c. 1540–1545)
Madonna and Child with Saints (London, c. 1540–1545)
Madonna and Child with an Angel (c. 1540–1550)
Christ with Moses and Solomon (1541–1542)
Portrait of Fortunato Martinengo Cesaresco (1542)
Luzzago Altarpiece (1542)
Madonna and Child with Four Saints (c. 1543)
Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (c. 1543)
Pentecost (1543–1544)
Supper in the House of Simon the Pharisee (1544)
Christ with the Eucharist and Saints Bartholomew and Roch (c. 1545)
Portrait of an Ecclesiastic (c. 1545)
Christ and the Angel (c. 1550)

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