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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Santa Maria del Popolo (Rome, Lazio, Italy)en_US
dc.coverage.temporalca. 1600-1601 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorCaravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi daen_US
dc.creatorCarracci, Annibaleen_US
dc.date1600-1601en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-12T16:38:35Z
dc.date.available2013-04-12T16:38:35Z
dc.date.issued1600-1601en_US
dc.identifier207632en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 795en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/115500
dc.descriptionPainting on the left wall "Martyrdom of St. Peter" (by Caravaggio, 1600-01), general side view; The radical transformation of Annibale's style since he came to Rome could not be appreciated fully until his altarpiece of the Assumption of the Virgin for the Cerasi Chapel in S Maria del Popolo was unveiled early in 1601 (in situ). Despite the panel's relatively modest size, it has an overpowering impact. Supported by angels, the Virgin erupts from the empty tomb around which the apostles crowd, compressed together in the immediate foreground. Forms are simplified, and the almost geometrical solidity of the figures is intensified by the bright colours and sharp focus typical of panel painting. A staccato tempo of abrupt gestures, sudden twists and turns and unexpected juxtapositions forcefully communicates the picture's dramatic content, replacing the gentler, lyrical rhythms of the Pietà or the Farnese ceiling. The fact that the Assumption was to be flanked by two paintings by Caravaggio no doubt contributed to its extremist position. Faced with the challenge posed by Caravaggio's anti-idealist style, Annibale took the opposite course. His altarpiece polemicizes Caravaggio's non-selective naturalism, countering it with a conception of religious painting in which sacred figures of idealized perfection are depicted with the greatest possible verisimilitude; a conception that, moreover, had the full authority of tradition behind it. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 1/19/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediummarble; oil on canvas; fresco; stuccoen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectNew Testamenten_US
dc.subjectsaintsen_US
dc.subjectMary, Blessed Virgin, Sainten_US
dc.subjectPeter, the Apostle, Sainten_US
dc.subjectBaroqueen_US
dc.titleSanta Maria del Popolo, Cerasi Chapelen_US
dc.title.alternativeCappella Cerasien_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A2-I-R-SP-9-E1en_US
vra.culturalContextItalianen_US
vra.techniqueoil painting (technique) intarsiaen_US
vra.worktypepainting (visual work)en_US
dc.contributor.displayAnnibale Carracci (Italian painter, 1560-1609); Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian painter, 1571-1610)en_US


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