A woman wearing a long, royal-blue dress is surrounded by nine winged angels as she floats on a thin, bright white, downward-pointing crescent moon above a deep landscape with a town tucked into rolling hills in this vertical painting. The woman, Mary, and all the angels have pale, peachy skin and long, brown hair. Mary and the angels float against a pale yellow and pale peach field of light enclosed within a mass of steel-gray clouds. She presses her fingertips together in front of her chest and gazes down and to our right, her dark eyes almost closed. She has a delicate, straight nose, and…
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The Assumption of the Virgin

Michel Sittow (Netherlandish, c. 1469 - 1525)

c. 1500

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 21.1 x 16.2 cm (8 5/16 x 6 3/8 in.) ; overall (panel): 21.3 x 16.7 cm (8 3/8 x 6 9/16 in.) ; framed: 35.5 x 31.1 cm (14 x 12 1/4 in.)
Culture
Netherlandish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-R
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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