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The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin is also a subject of devotion throughout Christianity. Beyond art, the Coronation is a central motif in Marian processions around the world, such as the Grand Marian Procession in Los Angeles, revived by the Queen of Angels Foundation .
The Coronation of the Virgin is a 1635–1636 painting on oil on canvas by Diego Velázquez of the Holy Trinity crowning the Blessed Virgin Mary, a theme in Marian art. It is now at the Museo del Prado .
The painting is on a gold ground (gilded background), a feature of medieval painting, over which is a small paradise where the Coronation is being held.. It portrays Christ crowning the Virgin; both are surrounded by rays (executed through an engraving technique above the gilded background) which symbolize the divine light.
The Coronation of the Virgin is a painting by the Italian early Renaissance master Fra Angelico, executed around 1434–1435 in Fiesole . It is now in the Musée du Louvre of Paris , France . The artist executed another Coronation of the Virgin (c. 1432), now in the Uffizi in Florence .
For the Coronation of the Virgin, however, Lippi had to call in a total of six external painters, who were responsible also for the gilded frame, now lost. Originally the work had a predella , also lost, with the exception of a small panel with a Miracle of Saint Ambrose , now in the Berlin State Museums .
The Coronation of the Virgin, 1452-53 The Coronation of the Virgin is a common subject in art but the contract for this work specifies the unusual representation of the Father and Son of the Holy Trinity as identical figures (very rare in the 15th century, though there are other examples ), but allows Quarton to represent the Virgin as he chooses.
Coronation of c. 1432 by Fra Angelico, now Uffizi. The composition is a less crowded version of that in a Coronation of c. 1432 by Fra Angelico, which was then in a church in Florence, so presumably known to Piero. Previous compositions had shown a similar arrangement of the figures, but with the main figures raised on a high dais, rather than ...
Coronation of the Virgin (1609–1611) by Rubens. Coronation of the Virgin is a 1609-1611 oil sketch by Peter Paul Rubens, produced as a proposal for a side-chapel in Antwerp Cathedral but rejected in March 1611 and never realised as a full work, instead being reworked later for the same chapel as Assumption of the Virgin.