Death of the Virgin
Medium
tempera and oil with gold on panel
Dimensions
unframed: 71 × 54 cm · image: 66 × 53.3 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Medieval Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of the Friends of The Cleveland Museum of Art in memory of John Long Severance
Accession Number
1936.496
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About this artwork
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...