# Establishment of the Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GRÜNEWALD, Matthias]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on wood, 179 x 91 cm ## Commentary The painting was the right panel of the altarpiece in the Abbey Church at Aschaffenburg, near Bad Mergentheim. According to tradition, Pope Liberius \(pope from 352 to 366\) and a patrician had the same dream at the same night. The Virgin appeared and expressed her wish to raise a church at the site which she will mark by snow at the middle of the summer. Next day the Esquiline hill was covered by snow and it became the site of the church of Santa Maria Maggiore. The altarpiece is called the Altarpiece of the Our Lady of the Snow. ## Related artworks - [An Apostle from the Transfiguration]() - [An Apostle from the Transfiguration]() - [Annunciation and Resurrection]() - [Benefactor with Bird Cage]() - [Carrying the Cross \(detail\)]() - [Carrying the Cross]() - [Complaining Pharisee]() - [Concert of Angels and Nativity \(detail\)]() - [Concert of Angels and Nativity]() - [Concert of Angels \(detail\)]() - [Concert of Angels \(detail\)]() - [Concert of Angels \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()