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Assumption of Mary Magdalene
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: Jose Antolinez
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Assumption of Mary Magdalene by Jose Antolinez arrives as a hand-painted oil reproduction, its luminous ascent rebuilt stroke by stroke on canvas for a wall that welcomes quiet reflection.
Description
Description
A penitent woman is lifted skyward by unseen hands, her body caught between earthly weight and heavenly release: this is the moment Jose Antolinez chose to paint, and it is the moment that has kept viewers looking at this work for more than three centuries. Mary Magdalene, the reformed sinner of Christian legend, appears here not in penance but in transcendence, her upturned face and billowing drapery marking the instant her earthly trials give way to grace.
About Assumption of Mary Magdalene
Antolinez was among the most gifted painters working in Madrid during the later seventeenth century, and this canvas shows why his contemporaries valued him so highly. The composition builds in stages, from the darker lower register where the human world recedes to the luminous upper zone where cherubic figures gather around the ascending saint. Colour carries much of the emotional charge: warm flesh tones and the rose and gold of drapery are set against passages of cooler shadow, so that light itself seems to perform the act of lifting her from the earth.
The brushwork throughout is loose and confident in the manner associated with the Madrid school of the period, with drapery built from broad, fluid strokes rather than tight description, giving the whole scene a sense of motion that a more rigid technique could not achieve. It belongs to the mature phase of the career of Antolinez, when he had absorbed Venetian colourism and Spanish religious feeling into a personal, atmospheric style, and it stands among the more admired religious paintings of the Spanish Baroque, a famous painting whose reputation has only grown with time.
The hand-painted reproduction
Every ByMuseum reproduction of this composition is completed by a trained painter working in oil on canvas, not printed or mechanically reproduced. The palette is matched by eye and hand, the layered passages of drapery and cloud are rebuilt stroke by stroke, and the surface retains the texture and depth that only oil paint can hold. Buyers receive an oil painting reproduction in the fullest sense: a physical object with visible brushwork and the quiet presence of a painted surface, suited to a room where the light shifts through the day and the piece can be returned to again and again. Above a mantel, at the head of a staircase, or in a study where reflection is welcome, it settles into the wall with the gravity the subject deserves, asking for a moment of stillness rather than a passing glance.
- Hand-painted reproduction in oil on artist-grade canvas
- Available in multiple sizes to suit your wall
- Gallery-ready presentation, ready to hang on arrival
- Certificate of authenticity included with every order
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days
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Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
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Unframed — Rolled in Tube
Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
Framed — Ready to Hang
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For safe shipping, framing is available up to a maximum size. Larger sizes will automatically disable the frame option.
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Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.
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Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.
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