Barnaba da Modena
The Ascension

Second half of 15th century
Tempera on wood
Musei Capitolini, Rome

Unusual aspects of View this image include Mary's position at the right edge rather than the center, the woman whispering to her, the displacement of the admonishing angel to a hill above the apostles, and the truncation of the upper point of the mandorla.

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Photographed at the Musei Capitolini by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.