Caravaggio The Death of the Virgin Art Print
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An archival premium quality art print of The Death of the Virgin, painted by Caravaggio around 1605. Commissioned by papal lawyer Laerzio Alberti for his chapel in Santa Maria della Scala, Rome, the nearly life-sized oil on canvas was rejected by the parish — critics accused Caravaggio of using a mistress as his model for the Virgin. Yet Peter Paul Rubens praised it as one of the artist’s finest works. It was purchased by the Duke of Mantua, later acquired by Charles I of England, and after his execution sold to the French Royal Collection, where it remains today in the Louvre. The scene depicts Mary Magdalen and the Apostles gathered around the Virgin, with others pressing in behind. It is considered the last major Catholic work of art in which Mary is depicted as clearly dead. Religious art print #25.
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