This panel depicts the Ascension of Christ, the moment described in the Acts of the Apostles when the risen Christ departed from earth into heaven forty days after his Resurrection, watched by his apostles. It is a work of the Flemish painter Adriaen van Overbeke, active in Antwerp in the early sixteenth century, painted around 1510-1520.

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Ascension of Christ by Adriaen van Overbeke
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