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 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 century and returned in 1815.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 69; Ridolfi, Maraviglie, i. 229; Vasari, ed. Mil., vii. 445; Burckhardt, 720; Landon, Musée, viii. Pl. 11.

By Titian, Venice Academy; wood, arched at top, 22 ft. 8 in. × 11 ft. 9 in.; signed. The Virgin, with hands upraised and eyes turned towards heaven, from which the Eternal welcomes her with outstretched arms, is ascending 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 Paris. Since removal to Academy, somewhat injured by cleaning and extensive 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. Pl. 58; Burckhardt, 716; Lavice, 464; Viardot, 331.

Subject treated also by Moretto, Brera, Milan; Pinturicchio, Naples Museum; Rubens, Palazzo Colonna, Rome, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Palma Vecchio, Venice Academy; Taddeo Bartoli, Berlin Museum; Fra Bartolommeo (attributed), Berlin Museum, Earl of Warwick; Francisco de Ribalta, Valencia Museum; Ambrogio Borgognone, Brera, Milan; Paolo Veronese, Venice Academy; Giovanni Moroni, Brera, Milan; Tintoretto, Gesuiti, Venice; Giorgio Vasari, Badia, Florence; Domenico Ghirlandajo, S. M. Novella, Florence; Bernardo Pocetti, S. Felicità, ib.

ASSUNZIONE. See Assumption.

AST, BALTHAZAR VAN DER, first half of 17th century, 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, Künst. Lex., ii. 355.

ASTRONOMERS, Giorgione. See Chaldean Sages.

ASTRONOMY, Raphael, Camera della Segnatura, Vatican; fresco, on ceiling. Female 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; Müntz, 349.

Burial of Atala, Girodet de Roussy, Louvre.

ATALA, BURIAL OF, Girodet de Roussy, Louvre; canvas, H. 6 ft. 10 in. × 8 ft. 9 in. Scene from Chateaubriand's Atala (Génie du christianisme). At the entrance to a grotto, Chactas and Father Aubry are about to lay