ASSUNZIONE The Virgin sitting in light on the clouds above the tomb, around which the Apostles are grouped gazing upward ; St. Thomas catches her girdle as it falls. Painted in , 1543 ; carried to France close of last cen- { tury and returned in 1815. C. & C., Titian, ii. 69 ; Ridolfi, Maraviglie, i. 229 ; Vasori, ed. Mil., vii. 445 ; Burckhardt, 720 ; Landon, Musee, viii. PI. 11. By Titian, Venice Academy ; wood, arched at top, 22 ft. 8 in. X 11 ft. 9 in. ; signed. The Virgin, with hands upraised and eyes turned towards heaven, from which the Eternal wel- comes her with outstretched arms, is ascend- Burial of Atala, Girodet de Roussy, Louvre. ing attended by a swarm of cherubs and angels arranged in a circle of clouds around her ; below, the Apostles, in shadow, are grouped around the tomb, gazing upward with awe-stricken faces. Painted in 1516-18 for the high altar of S. M. dei Frari, Venice, where it was first exposed to public view, March 20, 1518. So dimmed even in the 16th century by candle-smoke and other causes that Vasari says it could scarcely be seen. The French did not think it worth carrying to Pai'is. Since removal to Acad- emy, somewhat injured by cleaning and ex- tensive repainting in lower part ; upper part fairly preserved. Vasari, ed. Mil., vii. 436; C. & C., Titian, i. 211; Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 534 ; Klas. der Malerei, i. PI. 58 ; Burck- hardt, 716 ; Lavice, 464 ; Viardot, 331. Subject treated also by Moretto, Brera, Milan ; Pinturicchio, Naples Museum ; Ru- bens, Palazzo Coionna, Koine, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Palma Vecchio, Venice Acad- emy ; Taddeo Bartoli, Berlin Museum ; Fra Bartolommeo (attributed), Berlin Museum, Earl of Warwick ; Francisco de Ribalta, Valencia Museum ; Ambrogio Borgognone, Brera, Milan ; Paolo Veronese, Venice Acad- emy; Giovanni Moroni, Brera, Milan ; Tin- toretto, Gesuiti, Venice ; Giorgio Vasari, Ba- dia, Florence ; Domenico Ghirlaudajo, S. M. Novella, Florence ; Bernardo Po- cetti, S. FelicitA, ib. ASSUNZIONE. See As- sumption. AST, BALTHAZAR VAN DER, first half of 17th cen- tury, died at Delft after 1650. Dutch school ; still- life painter, master of St. Luke's guild at Utrecht in 1619 and still living there in 1629. Works: Apple Blossoms with Insects, Fruit-pieces (2), Berlin Museum ; Fruit-piece, Dresden Gallery ; Others in Amalienstift, Dessau and Gotha Gallery. Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., ii. 3.55. ASTRONOMERS, Giorgione. See Chal- dean Sages. ASTRONOMY, Eapliael, Camera della Segnatura, Vatican ; fresco, on ceiling. Fe- male figure, leaning over a celestial globe, gazing at the planets ; on each side a little genius holding a tablet. Painted in 1511. Passavant, ii. 90 ; Muntz, 349. ATALA, BURIAL OF, Girodet de Roussy, Louvre ; canvas, H. 6 ft. 10 in. x 8 f t. 9 in. Scene from Chateaubriand's Atala (Genie du christianisme). At the entrance to a grotto, Chactas and Father Aubry are about to Jay 78
