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PUGET, Pierre: Assumption of the Virgin

🖼 Assumption of the Virgin, 1664-65
Marble
Berlin, Germany

Swirling drapery and upward-gazing cherubs frame the Virgin's ascension in dynamic Baroque composition, rendered through dramatic diagonal movement. Puget's marble relief exemplifies French religious sculpture's theatrical grandeur, synthesizing Italian dynamism with Classical restraint during the reign of Louis XIV.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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