# Episodes from the Life of the Virgin [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN MASTER, Italian]() - Date: 1301-1350 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary Certainly subsequent to Giotto's work in the Arena Chapel is the decoration of the presbytery walls by the hand of an anonymous painter who was inspired in any case by the Florentine master. This intervention is dated after 1323, the year of the canonization of St Thomas Aquinas, who is depicted with a halo on the arch separating the presbytery from the apse. The episodes represents the life of the Virgin from the death of Christ until her assumption in heaven. The picture shows the scenes on the left wall of the presbytery. ## Related artworks - [A Bishop Saint]() - [A Curious Scene]() - [Adam and Eve; Cain and Abel]() - [Adoration of St Mark]() - [Allegorical Portrait of Dante]() - [Altar frontal]() - [Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Altarpiece of St Clare \(detail\)]() - [Altarpiece of St Clare \(detail\)]() - [Altarpiece of St Clare]() - [Altarpiece of the Magi]() - [Altarpiece]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()