# Assumption of the Virgin Attended by the Apostles [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MURA, Francesco de]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary The iconographic and formal culmination of the Mary cycle in the Nunziatella is the grandiose Assumption on the ceiling of the nave. This subject had a special meaning for the Jesuits, who saw the Protestants' refusal of Mary worship as a key issue in their propagation of the faith. De Mura depicted Mary being received in heaven by the Holy Trinity, and not simply her rising upward supported by angel, the image that had dominated ceiling painting since <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/c/correggi/frescoes/duomo0.html'\)" href="/html/c/correggi/frescoes/duomo0.html">Correggio's cupola</a> in Parma. The rapport between the framed and framing elements, altogether independent of the architectural situation, gives this ceiling a distinctly ornamental character. Along with the caps of the vault and the simulated oval openings, the framing of the side cartouches composed of C-shaped elements and the sculptural forms of the frames around the niches form a dynamic, airy system of positive and negative shapes radiating outward from the centre ceiling. ## Related artworks - [Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes]() - [Adoration of the Kings \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Kings \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Kings]() - [Assumption of the Virgin Attended by the Apostles \(detail\)]() - [Caritas]() - [Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery]() - [Disciplines of the Olympic Games in Antiquity]() - [Fides]() - [Holy Family with the Infant St John The Baptist]() - [Horatius Slaying His Sister after the Defeat of the Curiatii]() - [Personification of Abundantia]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()