The Ascension of Christ

1513 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

religious

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.

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About the Artist

Hans Süss von Kulmbach

1480 – 1522

German painter, pupil of Jacopo de' Barbari and follower of Dürer. He worked in Nuremberg and probably for a time in Cracow, Poland. His works include the Tucher altarpiece designed by Dürer in St Sebald's church, Nuremberg, altarpieces in churches in Cracow, Adoration of the Magi, and portraits.

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