The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin

Diego de la Cruz, who was active in Burgos and the surrounding region of Old Castile, producing works that combined Netherlandish technique with Castilian devotional intensity, created this work around 1497, now in Madrid's Museo del Prado. The depiction of the Virgin and Child was the single most common subject in Italian Renaissance art, serving as a focus for both private devotion and public worship.

The devotional intimacy of the Virgin and Child group is achieved through delicate modeling of faces and hands, with the drapery treatment and color relationships following established workshop conventions for Marian subjects.