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The Assumption of the Virgin
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), 1577–79
1.70 m
2.12 m × 4.03 m
A storey and a half of a house. Stood on end it is 2.4 people tall.
Against things you know the size of
- Height
- 4.03 m
- Width
- 2.12 m
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Kind
- Painting
- Made in
- Greece
- Where the measurement comes from
- Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
- As the museum records it
- 403.2 × 211.8 cm (158 3/4 × 83 7/16 in.)
- Credit
- Gift of Nancy Atwood Sprague in memory of Albert Arnold Sprague
Ask this work
Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?
- How big is it?
- 2.12 m × 4.03 m. A storey and a half of a house. Measured by the museum.
- When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
- Made 1577–79. It is in the public domain, and The Art Institute of Chicago publishes it for open use.
- Whose is it?
- Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Art Institute of Chicago: Gift of Nancy Atwood Sprague in memory of Albert Arnold Sprague.
- How was it made?
- Oil on canvas, made in Greece, Mannerism. You can step inside it and walk among its marks.
- Who speaks for it?
- Its record at The Art Institute of Chicago. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.
Its colours
Read from the picture. Copy a colour, keep the palette, or furnish a room in it. My palettes
Stand next to it in the gallery Record at The Art Institute of Chicago
Four works a week, shown at their real size
One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.
Hangs well beside
Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.
