Filippo Lippi, Assumption and Annunciation with Aquinas Presenting Cardinal Carafa to Our Lady: Detail, the Assumption

1489-92
Fresco
Chapel of the Annunciation
Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome

As is common in Assumption images of the period, Mary's bodily ascent to Heaven is effected by angels who bear her weight. Other angels surround her with musical instruments. She looks down on the scene of the Annunciation below.

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Photographed at the basilica by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.