The "Assunta Passerini" by Andrea del Sarto

On 15 August, the Assumption of Mary into Heaven is celebrated.
At the end of her earthly life, the Virgin  is assumed into Heaven "in body and soul".
A dogma made official by the Catholic Church quite recently, only in 1950 when Pope Pius XII put an end to a long debate between the Eastern and Western Churches: the question of the earthly body of Mary and the soul of the Virgin.
The Assumption of Mary is a subject developed in painting by many artists, including Andrea del Sarto in the “Assunta Passerini”, a work executed around 1526 for Margherita Passerini from Cortona.