The Assumption of the Virgin

Artist Ludovico Carracci b. 1555, Bologna; d. 1619, Bologna

Datecirca 1585–1587

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions96 1/2 x 53 in. (245.1 x 134.6 cm)
Frame: 104 3/8 x 61 1/8 in. (265.1 x 155.3 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. L. Dorminy in memory of her husband

Object numberGL.57.21.1

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ProvenancePossibly Zambeccari family, Villa Martignone (Bologna) 17th century; Zambeccari collection, Bologna, by 1703 (Cammarota, 2000); by descent to Marchese Giacomo Zambeccari (1723–1795), Galleria Zambeccari, Bologna; by descent to Giacomo Zambeccari (_________); by descent to Camillo Zambeccari (1816–1865); sold 1838 to Flavio Perotti; James Hamilton, second Marquess of Abercorn (1811–1885, whose collector’s mark appears on stretcher); ? by descent to his son James Hamilton (1838–1913), 2nd Duke of Abercorn; ? by descent to James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn (1869–1953); Jacques Seligmann & Co., NY; sold to NCMA, 1957.
[see unedited Provenance notes in the Notes field]Published ReferencesRaleigh, NC: The News and Observer (August 25, 1957), illus.

Minverva Pinnell, "Ludovico Carracci's Assumption of the Virgin," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 1, nos. 4 & 5 (Winter 1957-Spring 1957), 1-7, illus. (b-w) front cover, detail (b-w) 2.

Art in Italy, 1600-1700 (exhibition catalogue) (New York: published for The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1965), cat. no. 65, illus.

Ottani, Anna, Gli Affreschi dei Carracci in Palazzo Fava (Bologna: Casa Editrice Prof. Riccardo Patron, 1966), 71, illus. pl. 53.

Natura ed Espressione nell'arte Bolognese- Emiliana (exhibition catalogue) (Bologna: Edizione Alfa, 1970) cat. no. 51, illus.

Lenore Street, "Lodovico Carracci's Assumption of the Virgin in Modena," The Art Quarterly 33, no. 4 (Winter 1970), 380, illus. fig. 2.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983, illus. (b-w) 195.

The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 1986), cat. no. 104, illus. (color), same in Italian edition.

David Steel, "A Bolognese Legacy," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Winter 1991-92), 5, illus. (b-w) 4.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 182.

Keith Christiansen, "Coming to Grips With an Original in Fort Worth," The New York Times (Sunday January 20, 1994), only Raleigh, NC is mentioned.

Ludovico Carracci (exhibition catalogue), Andrea Emiliani, ed. (Bologna: Nuova Editoriale in association with Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1993), cat. no. 17, illus. (color) 39, same in Italian edition.

Catherine Loisel-Legrand, "Dessins de Jeunesse des Carracci: Ludovico, Annibale ou Agostino?" Paragone 46, no. 4 (549) (November 1995), 11, 12, illus. fig. 11, detail fig. 13.

Elizabeth Cropper, "La Reformé de L'Art et la Deuxième Renaissance de Rome Des Carrache au Bernin," in L'Art italien: de la Renaissance À 1905 (Paris: Éditions Citadelles & Mazenod, 1998), 111, illus. (color) 114.

Rebecca Martin Nagy, entry for The Assumption of the Virgin, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 132, illus. (color).

Extensive bibliography cited in A. Brogi, Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619), I (Bologna: Edizione Tioparte, 2001), 125-126.

Babette Bohn, Ludovico Carracci and the Art of Drawing (Turnhout: Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2004), illus (b-w) 127, fig. 24a.

Ilaria Bianchi, La politica delle immagini nell'età della Controriforma (Bologna: Editrice Compositori, 2008), 194-195, illus. (b-w), 191, fig. 87.

Rebecca Martin Nagy, entry for The Assumption of the Virgin, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 278, illus. (color) 279.

Lyle Humphrey, "Saul Among the Prophets: W.R. Valentiner, Robert L. Humber, Carl W. Hamilton, and the Italian Collection at the NCMA," Lisandra Estevez, ed., Collecting Early Modern Art (1400-1800) in the U.S. South (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 36.Exhibition HistoryDetroit, MI, The Detroit Institute of Arts, "Art in Italy, 1600-1700," April 16-May 9, 1965, cat. no. 65, illus.

Bologna, Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, "Natura ed Espressione nell'arte Bolognese-Emiliana," September 12-November 22, 1970, cat. no. 51, illus.

Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale, "The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries," September 10-November 10, 1986; Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, December 18, 1986-February 15, 1987; New York, NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 19-May 24, 1987, cat. no. 104, illus. (color), same in Italian edition.

Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale, "Ludovico Carracci," September 25-December 12, 1993: Fort Worth, TX, Kimbell Art Museum, January 22-April 10, 1994, cat. no. 17, illus. (color), same in Italian edition.

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