# San Pier Maggiore Altarpiece: The Ascension [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [JACOPO DI CIONE]() - Date: 1351-1400 - Technique: Egg tempera on wood, 96 x 49 cm ## Commentary The panel representing The Ascension is one of the six upper tier panels of the altarpiece. Christ ascends into Heaven accompanied by music-making angels who are playing, on the left, a portative organ and a lute, and on the right a fiddle and a psaltery. This type of standing Christ in the Ascension may derive from the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/a/andrea/firenze/spanish/5vault4.html'\)" href="/html/a/andrea/firenze/spanish/5vault4.html">frescoes in the Spanish Chapel</a> in Santa Maria Novella, Florence by Andrea da Firenze. ## Related artworks - [Annunciation]() - [Coronation of the Virgin]() - [Female Saints]() - [Madonna and Child]() - [Madonna and Child with Saints]() - [Madonna dell'Umiltà]() - [Mystic Marriage of St Catherine of Alexandria]() - [Noli me tangere \(detail\)]() - [Noli me tangere \(detail\)]() - [Noli me tangere]() - [Polyptych \(detail\)]() - [Polyptych \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()