Assumption of the Virgin

The Assumption of the Virgin is an oil painting on wood painted in the period between 1490 and 1518 by the painter Portuguese of the Renaissance Vicente Gil who initially went to the Convent of Santa Clara-a-Velha, Coimbra, and which is currently in the Machado de Castro National Museum of this same city.

The Assumption of the Virgin is a painting of superior artistic quality created in the coimbrã workshop formerly called "Mestre do Sardoal". The insertion of the weapons of Queen Leonor, in the clasp of the cover of the angel kneeling on the left side, and of the chamberlain, another symbol of this queen, which spreads in the decoration of the fabrics, prove that the work was of his order.