The Assumption of the Virgin with St. Mark and St. Jerome, St. Catherine of Alexandria and St. Clare

In 1812 the Brera gallery in Milan and the Louvre in Paris exchanged paintings with each other, and two of the panels Paris received came from this altarpiece. Moretto had painted it around 1529 for the Franciscan church of Santa Maria degli Angeli at Gardone Val Trompia, up the valley from Brescia, six compartments set into one carved wooden frame. The French administration running Lombardy closed the convent, the polyptych was taken apart in 1805, and its pieces were split between the two cities over the years that followed. Brera holds the upper row, the Virgin rising in the tall central panel with Jerome paired with Mark on one side and Catherine of Alexandria with Clare on the other. None of the three is on display at present. The frame is still in the church at Gardone, with photographs of the panels fitted into it.