The Assumption of the Virgin with Busts of the Archangel Gabriel and the Virgin of the Annunciation
Paolo di Giovanni Fei
c. 1400/1405
Medium
tempera on panel
Dimensions
painted surface: 66.5 × 38.1 cm (26 3/16 × 15 in.) overall: 79.8 × 51 cm (31 7/16 × 20 1/16 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CIS-R
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Accession Number
1961.9.71
About the Artist
Paolo di Giovanni Fei · 1369–1411
Paolo di Giovanni Fei (c. 1345–c. 1411) emerged as a distinctive voice in the Sienese school of painting, a tradition rooted in Siena's medieval artistic heritage. Originally from San Quirico near Castelvecchio, he settled in Siena by 1369, when records document his membership in the city's General Council, indicating he had already reached adulthood. By 1389, he appeared in the register of the pa...