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The Ascension

The apostles and Mary gaze upward as Christ is taken into heaven, borne aloft while angels stand among them (Acts 1). A tempera icon by the Russian iconographer Andrei Rublev.

The Ascension by Andrei Rublev depicting Acts 1:9
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Depicted passages

Acts 1:9-11Primary
Portrait of Andrei Rublev

About Andrei Rublev

1360-1430 · Russian

Andrei Rublev was a medieval Russian iconographer canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church. Surviving works attributed to him include the Hospitality of Abraham (the icon often called the "Old Testament Trinity") and the festal tier of the Annunciation Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin (c. 1405).

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