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The Virgin lies dead on a simple bed, her body swollen, while the apostles grieve around her in a bare room draped with a massive red curtain.
Significance
Rejected by the church that commissioned it for depicting the Virgin as a common corpse (rumored to be modeled on a drowned prostitute). Rubens convinced the Duke of Mantua to buy it.
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
369 cm × 245 cm
Location
Louvre Museum, Paris, France