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PERUGINO, Pietro: Assumption of the Virgin with Four Saints

🖼 Assumption of the Virgin with Four Saints, 1500
Oil on wood
415 × 246 cm
Florence, Italy

Heavenly light bathes the ascending Virgin surrounded by apostles below and saints in gold-trimmed robes. Perugino's balanced composition and serene figures exemplify Early Renaissance ideals, establishing the visual language for this popular Counter-Reformation subject.

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E. H. Gombrich
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