Filippo
Lippi, The Assumption
Two Details of the Apostles
1489-92
Fresco
Chapel
of the Annunciation
Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome
Two details from the larger Assumption
and Annunciation
with Aquinas Presenting Cardinal Carafa to Our Lady.
The two groups of apostles stand at the base of the larger image,
flanking the Annunciation inset
but gazing up at the ascending Virgin
Mary.
Photographed at the
site by Richard Stracke
