Milestones

Master of the Ashmolean Predella (Italian painter)
Birth of the Virgin
ca. 1365-70
tempera on panel
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Gianfrancesco Modigliani
Birth of the Virgin
ca. 1590-1600
oil on canvas
Chiesa di San Giacomo Apostolo dei Domenicani, Forlì

Andrea Lilio
Birth of the Virgin
ca. 1603
drawing (study for painted altarpiece)
British Museum

Scarsellino (Ippolito Scarsella)
Birth of the Virgin
1607
oil on canvas
Palazzo dei Musei, Modena

Simon Vouet
Birth of the Virgin
ca. 1620
oil on canvas
Chiesa di San Francesco a Ripa, Rome

Rutilio Manetti
Birth of the Virgin
1625
oil on canvas (altarpiece)
Basilica di San Clemente, Santa Maria dei Servi

attributed to Michael Wolgemut
Death of the Virgin
ca. 1480
oil on panel
Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia, Rome

Gianfrancesco Modigliani
Death of the Virgin
ca. 1590-1600
oil on canvas
Chiesa di San Giacomo Apostolo dei Domenicani, Forlì

Carlo Saraceni
Death of the Virgin
ca. 1615-20
oil on copper
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Sano di Pietro
Assumption of the Virgin
ca. 1445
tempera on panel (altarpiece)
Palazzo Pubblico, Siena

attributed to Josse Lieferinxe
Assumption of the Virgin
ca. 1497-1508
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Pintoricchio (Bernardino di Betto) and workshop
Assumption of the Virgin
ca. 1508
tempera and oil on panel
Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

Joachim Patinir
Assumption of the Virgin with Episodes from the Life of Christ
ca. 1510
oil on panel (altarpiece)
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Cola dell'Amatrice (Nicola Filotesio)
Assumption of the Virgin with Saints
1515
tempera on panel (altarpiece)
Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome

Alonso Berruguete
Figure Study for Assumption of the Virgin
ca. 1555-60
drawing
British Museum

Paolo Veronese
Assumption of the Virgin
ca. 1585-87
oil on canvas (ceiling)
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Johann Rottenhammer
Assumption of the Virgin
1612
ink and watercolor on paper
British Museum

from Journey to Iceland

And the great plains are for ever where the cold fish is hunted,

And everywhere; the light birds flicker and flaunt;

            Under the scolding flag the lover

            Of islands may see at last,

Faintly, his limited hope; and he hears the glitter

Of glaciers, the sterile immature mountains intense

            In the abnormal day of this world, and a river's

            Fan-like polyp of sand.

Then let the good citizen here find natural marvels:

The horse-shoe ravine, the issue of steam from a cleft

            In the rock, and rocks, and waterfalls brushing the

            Rocks, and among the rocks birds. 

– W.H. Auden (1936)