The Assumption of the Virgin – (Nicolas Poussin) ◄ Poprzedni Następny ►

Artysta: Nicolas Poussin

Data: 1632

Rozmiar: 172 x 135 cm

Technika: Oil On Canvas

A woman floats among billowing clouds over a rectangular stone coffin in this vertical painting. Ten nude, baby-like putti support her body, float alongside her, or scatter flowers, while more winged baby heads are tucked among the parchment-brown clouds. The woman and all the babies have pale, peachy skin. The woman rises with her body facing our left, almost in profile. She looks up with dark eyes so we see the underside of her straight nose, and her coral-pink lips are parted. Her chestnut-brown hair is pulled back, and a scarf of the same color wraps across her shoulders. Her rose-pink dress is belted under her bust. It has puffy long sleeves, and the bottom hem flutters around her bare feet. Her lower torso and legs are wrapped with a voluminous, azure-blue cloak. She reaches her hands slightly forward, palms facing up. All the babyish putti have short blond or light brown hair, chubby bodies, and rosy cheeks. Four hold up or support the woman's legs, and many of them reach, point, or look upward. Another floats near her right arm, farther from us. Below, a white cloth is bunched and draped over the side of the stone coffin closer to us. Three child-like putti scatter white flowers into the coffin, and more are on the ground around it. Two of those putti have wings, one in golden yellow and the other slate blue. The clouds around the woman seem to emanate from behind the coffin to swirl up and around her. Two more putti hold up the clouds along the top edge of the composition. The scene is flanked to either side by peanut-brown, fluted stone columns, which extend off the top edge of the composition. The sky beyond is streaked with apricot peach near the horizon and shifts to topaz blue above.