Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

baroque

Caravaggio Paintings 1571 - 1610 Italy, Baroque Painter

The Death of the Virgin, 1606

Oil on canvas, 145 1/4 x 96 3/8 inches (369 x 245 cm)

Musee du Louvre, Paris

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OIL PAINTING: The Death of the Virgin, 1606
The Death of the Virgin is severe, sad and still. Under a red canopy hanging from a barely visible ceiling, the disciples are grouped round the corpse (fixed on a bed in rigor mortis), most standing to the left. Light coming from a window high on the left picks out their foreheads and bald pates, before falling on the upper part of the Virgin's body. Above her stands the young, mourning St John the Evangelist who had been given special charge of her; in front, the seated Mary Magdalene stoops forward and almost buries her head in her lap.
In the predominant colours of The Death of the Virgin- red, orange, dark green - Caravaggio uses a slightly wider range than in his later, darker Roman paintings, but nowhere else did he achieve a mood of such overwhelming solemnity. Mary's companions, her Son's followers, are struck dumb by their grief, like relief sculptures on antique tombs. There is no suggestion that their sorrow will be turned into joy or that Mary will be assumed into heaven.