# Assumption of the Virgin [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUBENS, Peter Paul]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 501 x 351 cm ## Commentary Assumption of the Virgin c. 1637 Oil on canvas, 501 x 351 cm Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna This huge painting was commissioned for the high altar of the Carthusian church in Brussels. Rubens addressed the subject of the Assumption several times before, the painting in the Liechtenstein Museum is the last version from the painter's late period. ## Related artworks - [A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Albert and Nicolaas Rubens]() - [Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()