The ''Assumption Altarpiece'' was a 1529-1530 multi-panel painting by

Moretto da Brescia Alessandro Bonvicino (also Buonvicino) (possibly 22 December 1554), more commonly known as Moretto, or in Italian Il Moretto da Brescia (the Moor of Brescia), was an Italian Renaissance painter from Brescia, where he also mostly worked. His da ...

. It is mainly oil on panel, although the two angels on the cornice are in tempera grassa verniciata. The whole work was originally in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in

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but was split up in 1805 and moved to the

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in Milan. All the panels remained there until 1812, when the two lower side panels (''St Bonaventure and St Anthony of Padua'' and ''St Bernardino of Siena and St Louis of Toulouse'') and three other paintings (one each by Boltraffio, Marco d'Oggiono and Carpaccio) were given to the Louvre in exchange for two paintings by Van Dyck and one each by Rubens, Jordaens and Rembrandt.Pier Virgilio Begni Redona, p. 223

Panels

Cornice

*''Two Angels''

Upper register

*''Saint Jerome and St Paul'' *''Assumption of the Virgin'' *''St Catherine of Alexandria and St Clare of Assisi''

Lower register

*''St Bonaventure and St Anthony of Padua'' *''St Francis of Assisi'' *''St Bernardino of Siena and St Louis of Toulouse'' File:Santi Girolamo e Paolo (Moretto).jpg, ''St Jerome and St Paul'' File:Sante Caterina d'Alessandria e Chiara (Moretto).jpg, ''St Catherine of Alexandria and St Clare of Assisi'' File:Moretto, santi bonaventura e antonio.jpg, ''St Bonaventure and St Anthony of Padua'' (Louvre) File:San Francesco d'Assisi (Moretto).jpg, ''St Francis of Assisi'' File:Moretto, santi bernardino e ludovico.jpg, ''St Bernardino of Siena and St Louis of Toulouse'' (Louvre)

References

Bibliography (in Italian)

*Camillo Boselli, ''Il Moretto, 1498-1554'', in "Commentari dell'Ateneo di Brescia per l'anno 1954 - Supplemento", Brescia 1954 *Pietro Da Ponte, ''L'opera del Moretto'', Brescia 1898 *Luigi Falsina, ''Gemme artistiche triumpline'', in "La valle Trompia", anno 7, Brescia 1930 *György Gombosi, ''Moretto da Brescia'', Basel 1943 *Valerio Guazzoni, ''Moretto. Il tema sacro'', Brescia 1981 *Pier Virgilio Begni Redona, ''Alessandro Bonvicino - Il Moretto da Brescia'', Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 1988 *Adolfo Venturi, ''Storia dell'arte italiana'', volume IX, ''La pittura del Cinquecento'', Milano 1929 {{Moretto da Brescia Paintings by Moretto da Brescia Paintings of the Assumption of the Virgin Paintings of Francis of Assisi Paintings of Paul the Apostle Paintings of Catherine of Alexandria category:Paintings of Saint Bonaventure Paintings of Louis of Toulouse Paintings of Jerome Paintings of Anthony of Padua Paintings of Clare of Assisi Paintings of Bernardino of Siena Paintings in the Louvre by Italian artists Paintings in the Pinacoteca di Brera 1530 paintings Altarpieces Angels in art Polyptychs