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TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista: Assumption of the Virgin

🖼 Assumption of the Virgin, 1759
Fresco
Udine, Italy

Heavenly light floods downward as the Virgin ascends through swirling clouds and cherubs, rendered in Tiepolo's luminous Rococo style with dramatic foreshortening. This ceiling fresco exemplifies 18th-century Venetian illusionism, merging spiritual transcendence with theatrical grandeur to inspire devotion in worshippers below.

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