Mariolatry

Bob Thompson
The Assumption
1964
oil on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Giovanni Battista Trotti (il Molosso)
Assumption of the Virgin
before 1619
drawing (study for altarpiece)
Royal Collection, Windsor

Vitale da Bologna
Coronation of the Virgin
ca. 1340-45
tempera and gold on panel
Musée du Louvre

Lorenzo Monaco
Coronation of the Virgin
ca. 1388-90
tempera and gold on panel
Courtauld Gallery, London

Lorenzo Monaco
Coronation of the Virgin
ca. 1407-1409
tempera and gold on panel
National Gallery, London

Andrea di Bartolo
Coronation of the Virgin
before 1428
tempera and gold on panel
private collection

Ventura di Moro
Coronation of the Virgin
ca. 1425-50
tempera on panel
Musei Capitolini, Rome

Antonio Vivarini
Coronation of the Virgin
1444
tempera and gold on panel
Chiesa di San Pantalon, Venice

Bartolomeo di Tommaso
Rospigliosi Altarpiece
(Coronation of the Virgin flanked by The Nativity and Adoration of the Magi)
ca. 1445
tempera on panel
Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome

Sano di Pietro
Coronation of the Virgin with Saints and Angels
before 1481
tempera on panel
Museo Civico Rocca Flea, Gualdo Tadino

Bartholome Zeitblom (paintings) and Niklaus Weckmann (sculptures)
Kilchberger Altarpiece - Coronation of the Virgin with Saints
ca. 1494
tempera and oil on panel with painted wood figures
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Raphael, followed by Giulio Romano and Giovanni Francesco Penni
Coronation of the Virgin - Madonna of Monteluce
begun by Raphael in 1505, completed in 1525 by others after his death
oil on panel
Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome

Innocenzo Tacconi, after design by Annibale Carracci
Coronation of the Virgin
ca. 1590
oil on canvas
Chiesa di Santa Caterina dei Funari, Rome

Gaspare Venturini
Coronation of the Virgin
ca. 1600
oil on canvas
Chiesa della Madonnina di Ferrara

Arnout Vinckenborch
Coronation of the Virgin
ca. 1617
oil on panel
Sint Pauluskerk, Antwerp

Fra Angelico
Virgin and Child enthroned with Angels and Saints
ca. 1450-55
tempera on panel
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Mariano di Austerio da Perugia
Virgin and Child enthroned with Saints
ca. 1493
tempera on panel
Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome

from London

Athwart the sky a lowly sigh

From west to east the sweet wind carried;

The sun stood still on Primrose Hill;

            His light in all the city tarried:

The clouds on viewless columns bloomed

Like smouldering lilies unconsumed.

– John Davidson (1857-1909)