The Dormition of the Virgin

Anonimo ferrarese (XV secolo)

This panel, attributed to the so-called “Master of the Dormitio Virginis Massari”, who worked in Ferrara in the late fifteenth century, shows the Virgin sleeping the sleep of death (the origin of the traditional term “dormition”) and her assumption into glory, as narrated in the Apocryphal Gospels and adopted into the tradition of the Eastern Churches.

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• TITLE

  The Dormition of the Virgin

• AUTHOR

  Anonimo ferrarese (XV secolo)

• DATE

  c. 1490

• TYPE

  Painting

• TECNIQUE

  Tempera on panel

• DIMENSIONS

  158 × 230 cm

• SUBJECT

  Sacred art

• SCUOLA PITTORICA

  Late 15th century Ferrarese painting

• ROOM

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