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The picture shows the vault of the nave with the Assumption of the Virgin in the Oratorio San Filippo Neri in Florence.
The most successful and most varied of Baroque apotheoses and glories in ceiling painting was the Assumption of the Virgin. Even as it became more and more difficult to give to such glorifications and ascents the directness and vividness required to make them seem believable, painters managed to invent original formulations for this scene with which, moderated by the influence of classicism, they once again evoked the Baroque tradition.
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