MAGNIFICAT: August Art Cover Essay. Assumption, Ambrogio Bergognone (1453–1523), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y. This work represents the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary through …More
MAGNIFICAT: August Art Cover Essay.
Assumption, Ambrogio Bergognone (1453–1523), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.
This work represents the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary through to its culmination in her celestial coronation. It was painted by Ambrogio di Stefano (1453–1523), known as Bergognone, “the Burgundian,” perhaps due to his family origins. But, one might also see there an allusion to his artistic loyalties, running counter-current to the Renaissance, to a style that owes more to Van Eyck and Fouquet than to the Italian masters of the new art. Like Bourdichon (1457–1521), and in a very similar style, Bergognone was at first active within the sphere of influence of Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519). But Bergognone and Bourdichon declined to sign up unreservedly to the Renaissance. While their pictorial techniques never stopped evolving with the times, they preferred to reject naturalism, instead retaining from the art of the Gothic masters and from manuscript …More
Assumption, Ambrogio Bergognone (1453–1523), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.
This work represents the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary through to its culmination in her celestial coronation. It was painted by Ambrogio di Stefano (1453–1523), known as Bergognone, “the Burgundian,” perhaps due to his family origins. But, one might also see there an allusion to his artistic loyalties, running counter-current to the Renaissance, to a style that owes more to Van Eyck and Fouquet than to the Italian masters of the new art. Like Bourdichon (1457–1521), and in a very similar style, Bergognone was at first active within the sphere of influence of Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519). But Bergognone and Bourdichon declined to sign up unreservedly to the Renaissance. While their pictorial techniques never stopped evolving with the times, they preferred to reject naturalism, instead retaining from the art of the Gothic masters and from manuscript …More
