The Assumption of the Virgin with Busts of the Archangel Gabriel and the Virgin of the Annunciation (1400–1405)
Paolo di Giovanni Fei
Tempera on Panel. Sienese, Gothic.
Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
It was 1950 before the Catholic Church accepted the Virgin Mary’s bodily assumption into heaven as official dogma, but the notion had long been part of her legend and a subject for artists. One of the…