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The Assumption of the Virgin
c. 1428 · tavola/ pittura a tempera (panel, tempera painting) · Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli (Collezione Farnese; Ministero della Cultura, Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali)
For the Assumption · 15 August
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Our Lady rises in a white mantle with her hands joined, and the angels around her are packed as close as feathers; some play lute and viol, and two carry scrolls lettered Virtutes. Dillian Gordon's National Gallery catalogue, citing Perri Lee Roberts, reads these angels as the nine hierarchies as Gregory the Great ranked them, with a pope, whom the National Gallery names only tentatively as Saint Gregory, placed alongside. Masolino painted this about 1428 as one face of a shared support. The other face showed the miracle that founded Santa Maria Maggiore, an August snowfall tracing the basilica's plan on the Esquiline Hill: the church founded on earth on one side, and on the other Mary taken up into heaven. By 1644 the two faces were sawn apart at Palazzo Farnese and called Fra Angelico. The angels still bear her up.
Sources: National Gallery, London, Gordon 2003, 'Santa Maria Maggiore Altarpiece' catalogue entry · National Gallery, London, Gordon 2003 (commission history) · National Gallery, London, Gordon 2003 · Strehlke and Tucker technical study, cited in National Gallery, London, Gordon 2003 · National Gallery, London, Gordon 2003 (dispersal history) · The National Gallery, London, Masolino, 'A Pope (Saint Gregory?) and Saint Matthias', NG5963.