Assumption of the Virgin

Egid Quirin Asam

Location and Time

• Kloster Rohr (monastery church)

• Rohr, Germany• 1723

Background

• Inspired by Late Baroque architecture from Rome (Bernini’s Ecstasy of Saint Teresa)

• All about illusion and spectacle • It is also supposed to represent a

theatre setting

Characteristics

• Yellow glass window to represent the heavens

• Gold painted rays off of the heavens and dove

• Different textures (rays, cloth, gilded cloth, stone)

• Gilded Mary and ascending angels• Theatre scenery effect/staged feel

Borrowing From Theatre• Baroque and Late Baroque theatre =

ornate and luxuriously ornamented• Idea was to create magic and illusions

such as a 3D looking backdrop• Church’s idea was to create the depiction

of a scene in the church

Just for fun . . .