The Assumption of Mary original: "Assumptio Mariæ"

A woodcut illustration depicts the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The scene is divided into a terrestrial lower half and a celestial upper half. In the foreground, a group of Apostles is gathered around an empty stone sarcophagus a stone coffin, their faces turned upward in various expressions of awe and devotion. They are dressed in heavy, draped robes with detailed folds created through dense hatching. Above them, the Virgin Mary is shown ascending into heaven, her hands joined in prayer. She is surrounded by a mandorla an almond-shaped halo of light of light and billowing clouds, with several small winged putti cherubic infant figures supporting her ascent. The style is characteristic of late 16th or early 17th-century European woodblock printing.