# The Ascension of Christ [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [KULMBACH, Hans Süss von]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on fir panel, 60 x 36 cm ## Commentary This painting shows Christ rising to heaven above a compact group of the twelve apostles and the Virgin Mary. Only the feet and lower legs are visible. St Peter, identifiable by his baldness and the yellow of his cloak and the Virgin Mary kneel in the immediate foreground arranged symmetrically around the composition's vertical axis. It can be noted that the composition borrows from Albrecht <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/d/durer/2/12/7smallp/3/34\_small.html'\)" href="/html/d/durer/2/12/7smallp/3/34\_small.html">Dürer's Ascension</a> in the Small Passio woodcut series. However, it departs from Dürer and returns to an earlier tradition with the symmetrical placement of Peter and Mary in the foreground, as e.g. in <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/s/schaufel/study2.html'\)" href="/html/s/schaufel/study2.html">Schäufelein's woodcut.</a> ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Girl Making a Garland]() - [Nude Woman with a Mirror]() - [Portrait of a Young Man]() - [Portrait of the Margrave Casimir of Brandenburg]() - [The Ascension of Christ \(detail\)]() - [The Calling of St Peter]() - [Two Pairs of Lovers and an Old Woman]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()