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This panel, along with The Birth, Naming, and Circumcision of Saint John the Baptist , and Madonna and Child with Five Angels were once part of the same altarpiece devoted to Saint John the Baptist (see Reconstruction ). The altarpiece’s original location is not known, though it was probably featured in a church dedicated to the saint in what is today the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, close to Giovanni Baronzio ’s home in Rimini.
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This unusually large panel painting depicts three facets of Marian iconography: the Virgin’s corporeal assumption, the Immaculate Conception—the crescent moon and the radiance behind her identify Mary as the Woman of the Apocalyse, mentioned in Revelation 12:I—and the Coronation of the Virgin.
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During the Trojan War, the priest Laocoön angered the Greek gods, who sent snakes to kill him and his two sons. The legend became popular after a monumental, ancient marble sculpture of Laocoön and his sons was unearthed in Rome in 1506.
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After the Reformation had brought social and political upheaval to Germany, creating an unfavorable climate for artists, Holbein moved to England in 1526. He first painted for Sir Thomas More’s circle of high servants of the crown and then became painter to the King himself, Henry VIII.
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Saints played a very important role in the popular piety of the late Middle Ages. They were considered to be not only patrons and protectors against all manner of ills, but also mediators between the individual worshiper and God.
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