Dormition
Iconography: Dormition of the Holy Virgin
Date: XV century. The late 15th - early 16 centuries.
Iconographic school/art center: North of Russia (Transonega).
Origin: From the Chapel of the Assumption in the village of Vasilyevo, Medvezhyegorsk district, the Republic of Karelia).
Material: Wood, tempera
Dimensions: height 55,5 cm, width 40,5 cm
The figure of the Mother of God lying on the couch, flanked by the apostles is depicted against an architectural landscape. In the center of the icon is the figure of Jesus Christ with a swaddled child on his hands – the symbol of the immaculate soul. On either side of him stand the figures of angels and hierarchs.
Inv. № И-466. © Republic of Karelia Museum of Fine Arts
General view
Mullion. A fragment
The apostles standing around the deathbed of the Mother of God (left)
Jesus Christ, the apostles standing around the deathbed of the Mother of God (right)