"Ascension of Christ"
Vignola, Contrari Chapel

Vignola Stronghold, Contrari Chapel, east wall: “Ascension of Christ”. This wall represents the last episode of Jesus' earthly life, which ended - according to the Gospel - with his ascent to heaven, which took place, as the Acts of the Apostles report,  after a period of forty days from the date of his Resurrection; it was a period, during which Jesus, already taken up into heaven, would appear several times on Earth to teach his disciples about the mission of evangelization entrusted to them. The story of the Ascension symbolically represents and proclaims the exaltation of the risen Christ, which constitutes its fundamental theological significance.