# The Ascension

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## Artwork

- Artist: [THEOPHANES the Cretan](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/theophanes-the-cretan-r542f71d800af03>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Egg tempera on wood, 54 x 39 cm

## Commentary

In this icon Theophanes adopts an iconographical type which was a familiar feature of the art of the fifteenth-century Cretan School, particularly the painting of Andreas Ritzos, and which became especially popular in post-Byzantine painting.

## Related artworks

- [St Paul](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/theophanes-the-cretan-r542f71d800af03/st-paul-r0cdfcc14af7012>)

## Attribution

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