Assunção de nossa Senhora

Ataíde, Manoel de Costa (1762-1830)


Item type:
mural
Date of creation:
ca. 1802
Technique / Medium:
painting on wood

Additional titles

Assumption of the Virgin, with King David and angelic choir

    Item location

  • Igreja de São Francisco de Assis (Ouro Preto, Brasil)

Description

This ceiling painting depicts the assumption of the Virgin Mary, surrounded by a concert of angels playing instruments. Also present are King David playing the harp, and Saints Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine and Gregory the Great.

People as subjects

St. Mary (Blessed Virgin)
David, King of Israel

Iconclass

73E77
the assumption of Mary ('assumptio corporis'): she is borne into heaven by angels

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harp [3285]
Violoncello [3582]
Violin [3573]
Triangle [3005]
Lute [3394]
End-blown horn [5177]
Transverse flute [4093]
Natural trumpet [4419]
Natural horn [4126]

Image URLs

image link 1
Wikimedia Commons image

Bibliographic references

Tribe, Tania Costa. "The mulatto as artist and image in colonial Brazil", Oxford art journal 19/1 (1996) 67-79.

Sotuyo Blanco, Pablo and Alejandra Hernández Muñoz. "Visual appropriation or biased negotiations?: On devouring the others in Brazil-related music iconography", Iconografia musical: A música na dimensão do sagrado, ed. by Luís Correia de Sousa (Lisboa: Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e
Humanas. CESEM (Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical), Núcleo de Iconografia Musical (NIM)) 125-156. ISBN: 9789899773264. Available on academia.edu with account: http://www.academia.edu/download/44188231/ICONOGRAFIA_MUSICAL_-_A_musica_na_dimensao_do_sagrado.pdf#page=127

RIdIM record id

4844