Assunzione della Vergine

Lodi, Giovanni Agostino da (ca. 1467-1524)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1510-1520

Height:

195.0 cm  (76 3/4 in.)

Width:

100.0 cm  (39 3/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

tempera on panel

Place of creation:

Milano

Additional titles

Description

The panel was probably the main piece of an altar’s polyptych. It shows the Virgin (more standing than sitting) surrounded by angels with musical instruments (on the left side: lute, rebec, 2 tambourines, and shawm; on the right side: 3 lutes, rebec, straight trumpet). On the lower half on the left side: Apostle Thomas (the Doubter) standing and holding a belt which is a visual reference of an ancient story according which the Virgin returned from heaven to give Thomas her belt as evidence of her assumption into heaven.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Rebec [3202]
Shawm [4258]
Tambourine [2746]
Trumpet [4446]

RIdIM images

Bibliographic references

Giulio Bora. Giovanni Agostino da Lodi. In: I Leonardeschi: l’eredità di Leonardo in Lombardia, ed. by Giulio Bora (Milan: Skira, 1998), pp. 251-274.

Miklós Boskovits. Pittura lombarda di secondo Quattrocento: qualche aggiunta e commento. In: Arte Cristiana, XCVII (2009), pp. 351-364.

Franco Moro. Giovanni Agostino da Lodi ovvero l’Agostino di Bramantino: appunti per un unico percorso. In: Paragone, 473 (1989), pp. 23-61.

Silvia Valle Parri. Giovanni Agostino da Lodi e Giovanni Antonio De Lagaia. Angelo annunciante; Assunzione della Vergine. Giovanni Antonio De Lagaia. Madonna della Misericordia. In: Il Rinascimento nelle terre ticinesi. Da Bramantino a Bernardino Luini, ed. by Giovanni Agosti, Jacopo Stoppa, and Marco Tanzi (Milan: Officina Libraria, 2010).

Marco Navoni, and Alberto Rocca. Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Milan: Skira, 2023), p. 211.

RIdIM record id

9857