The Assumption of the Virgin - a fragment

This panel is a fragment of what would have probably once formed the central part of a retable devoted to the Virgin. The image of the assumption of the Virgin in late fifteenth and early sixteenth century Spain was much influenced by a now-lost monumental painting by Hans Memling and his workshop which occupied the entire apse wall of the monastery church of Santa María la Real in Nájera, of which only the surmounting Musical Angels with God the Father now survive (Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten).