# Assumption of Mary [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PERUGINO, Pietro]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Metalpoint, pen, wash, with white heightening, 272 x 210 mm ## Commentary Assumption of Mary c. 1481 Metalpoint, pen, wash, with white heightening, 272 x 210 mm Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna Pietro Perugino depicted the Virgin of the Assumption, to whom the altar was dedicated, in his altarpiece for the Sistine Chapel. The painting was later destroyed when Michelangelo's Last Judgment was installed, but a drawing copied from it preserves its composition. This drawing was made by an artist in the circle of Perugino. ## Related artworks - [Apollo and Marsyas]() - [Archangel Michael]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Assumption of the Virgin with Four Saints \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin with Four Saints \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin with Four Saints]() - [Baptism of Christ \(detail\)]() - [Baptism of Christ \(detail\)]() - [Baptism of Christ \(detail\)]() - [Baptism of Christ]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()