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The Apostles Gathered Around the Tomb of the Virgin
About the Artwork
Camillo Procaccini was a significant figure in the artistic activity of Bologna and Milan at the beginning of the Catholic Counter Reformation. This drawing is a preparatory work related to large oil painting still in situ (in its originally intended location), in the apse of the Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, Italy. Part of a program depicting the assumption of the Virgin, the drawing shows the apostles at the empty tomb of the Virgin, exclaiming with emotion at the miracle of her ascension to heaven. Procaccini’s iconographic program aligned with current reforms in Catholic imagery that placed emphasis on articles of faith and lives of the saints, often through miracles.
Provenance
1989: P. & D. Colnaghi, London, England ?–2024: (Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London, England, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) September 9, 2024–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Camillo Procaccini (Italian, 1546–1629)
- Date
- c. 1594
- Medium
- Pen and ink and brush and wash with white heightening on paper prepared with reddish-brown wash
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 17.7 x 42.5 cm (6 15/16 x 16 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 2024.65
More by Camillo Procaccini in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011268
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