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Assumption of the Virgin (Italian: Assunzione di Maria) is a fresco by Rosso Fiorentino in the Chiostro dei Voti of the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata in Florence.
Vasari's Lives of the Artists relates how it was painted rapidly between 1513 and 1514 ready to be inaugurated at the solemnity of 8 September 1514, when the basilica received the title of perpetual jubilee from Pope Leo X. Fiorentino came highly recommended to the monks by his master Andrea del Sarto (painter of most of the lunettes in the cloister). The work's two-register composition derives from  Last Judgement by Fra Bartolomeo and Mariotto Albertinelli and Raphael's Oddi Altarpiece.
In 1515, the monks expressed their dissatisfaction with Fiorentino and asked him to repaint the fresco, to which Fiorentino agreed. The work's composition was also an influence on the artist's Madonna and Child with Cherubs, produced around the same time.
Basilica della Santissima Annunziata Fra Bartolomeo Florence Lives of the Artists Raphael Pope Leo X Last Judgement Oddi Altarpiece Madonna and Child with Cherubs Rosso Fiorentino Andrea del Sarto Mariotto Albertinelli fresco