This etching by Giovanni Battista Vanni hail from a series that reproduces the glorious fresco The Assumption of the Virgin that Antonio Allegri Correggio painted in the 1520s in the Cathedral of Parma. Rather than attempting to render this monumental, light-filled, upward-spiraling composition in one print, Vanni etched fifteen different plates to highlight select details. Accordingly this series offers the viewer the opportunity to study and appreciate parts of The Assumption of the Virgin that might be overlooked. In particular, Vanni made eight prints of the figures who appear on the balustrade at the base of the dome. They are looking upwards in hopes of catching a glimpseof the Virgin disappearing into the clouds above.