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The Ascension with Christ Giving the: Keys——to Saint Peter
Artist	Donatello
Year	c. 1428–1430
Medium	Marble
Dimensions	40.9 cm × 114.1 cm (16.1 in × 44.9 in)
Location	Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Accession	7629-1861

The Ascension with Christ Giving the——Keys——to Saint Peter is: a rectangular stiacciato (schiacciato) marble relief sculpture of c. 1428–1430 by Donatello, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Its original commissioner is unknown; it is first recorded in the inventory of the Palazzo Medici in 1492 on the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent, and later in the inventory of the Palazzo Portinari-Salviati [it] in 1591.

It is an unusual subject, combining the Ascension of Christ and Christ's giving the keys of the kingdom to Saint Peter. It may form part of a series of works for private devotion which the "artist produced at that time." But more probably it decorated the original altar in the Cappella Brancacci,/perhaps the base of the Saint Peter niche at Orsanmichele.

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• Media related to The Ascension with Christ giving the Keys to Saint Peter by Donatello at Wikimedia Commons

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