A woman, Mary, sitting on a throne made of clouds is surrounded by ten winged angels, floating above a landscape with twelve people gathered closely around a long, rectangular, stone box filled with flowers, all set against a gold background in this tall, vertical painting. Mary and the angels have pale, peachy skin and the men below have more tan complexions. Each person’s head is surrounded by a flat, gold halo. In the upper half of the composition, Mary’s blond hair is covered by a veil, and her white robe is decorated with a pattern of starburst-like, gold shapes and edged in gold. She…
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The Assumption of the Virgin with Busts of the Archangel Gabriel and the Virgin of the Annunciation

Paolo di Giovanni Fei (Sienese, c. 1335/1345 - 1411)

c. 1400/1405

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 66.5 × 38.1 cm (26 3/16 × 15 in.) ; overall: 79.8 × 51 cm (31 7/16 × 20 1/16 in.)
Culture
Sienese
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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