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Carlo Saraceni

The Dormition of the Virgin

ca. 1612
Oil on canvas
305.1 × 231.1 cm (120.1 × 91 in)

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● On view now — Gallery 620

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · verified July 2026

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