# Delivery of the Keys to St Peter and the Ascension of Christ [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DONATELLO]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Marble, 41 x 114 cm ## Commentary Donatello produced an entire series of marble reliefs in the late 1420s, among them the one depicting the Delivery of the Keys to St Peter and the Ascension of Christ. From an iconographic point of view, the combination of the two biblical scenes in one picture is highly unusual. The relief is an extreme example of the rilievo schiacciato \(shallow relief\) which Donatello invented. Despite a width of 114 cm, the sculptural depth of the most raised sections of the relief is less than ten millimetres. It is not known for what purpose the relief was originally produced. ## Related artworks - [Altarpiece with St John the Baptist]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation]() - [Annunciation]() - [Annunciation]() - [Annunciation]() - [Ascension of Christ]() - [Ascension of St John]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()