Assumption of Mary or the Assumption of Mary is a Christian holiday that commemorates and celebrates the incorporation of Mary into heaven "with body and soul".
In the 1750s, Franz Anton Maulbertsch (1724-1796) developed a style of painting characterised by expressive drama and dynamism that was new in German art. His use of light and his way of applying paint rob the figures of their clear contours, dissolving their bodies into glowing, flaming, expansive, mottled surfaces. They are surrounded by flaming, convulsive light, or immersed in diffuse, almost impenetrable nocturnal darkness in a space beyond precise definition. In his "The Ascension of Mary" (c. 1755/56) - a subject that often preoccupied the artist - the apostles and watchmen appear in a bold vertical format, monumental in appearance, gripped by enormous internal and external forces. Caught as if lifted into the air by the magnificent celestial events, they stare upwards, excited, bewildered, anxious and questioning. They get a glimpse into another world, where Mary, shining like a star, is transported by angels.
Franz Anton Maulbertsch (Langenargen, now Germany 7 June 1724 - Vienna, Austria 8 August 1796) was an Austrian painter and engraver, one of the most renowned exponents of Rococo painting in the German and Hungarian regions's.
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