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Death of the Virgin
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About this work
Christ’s apostles visit the Virgin upon her deathbed. Saint Peter, wearing white robes and the papal tiara, performs funerary rites, reciting prayers and sprinkling holy water on the Virgin’s body. Above, angels engraved upon the golden background celebrate the assumption of the Virgin heavenward. Once joined to another panel titled The Death of Saint Clare (National Gallery, Washington, D.C.), this double representation of saintly deaths may have been used in funerary services in the convent of Clarissan nuns for which it was made.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineDeath of the Virgin, c. 1400. Master of Heiligenkreuz (Austrian). Tempera and oil with gold on panel; image: 66 x 53.3 cm (26 x 21 in.); framed: 74 x 61.5 x 4.5 cm (29 1/8 x 24 3/16 x 1 3/4 in.); unframed: 71 x 54 cm (27 15/16 x 21 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Friends of The Cleveland Museum of Art in memory of John Long Severance, 1936.496
