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La Dormition : vitrail de La Martyre (Finistère, Bretagne, France), 1562
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A few visual representations of Mary's Dormition and/or Assumption:
a) The Dormition as depicted in three late tenth- or eleventh-century
Byzantine ivories:
A late tenth-century Byzantine ivory, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/17.190.132
A late tenth- or early eleventh-century Byzantine ivory now in the Musée
National du Moyen Âge (Musée de Cluny) in Paris:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dormition_de_la_Vierge.JPG
An eleventh-century Byzantine ivory in the State Hermitage Museum, St.
Petersburg (photograph by Genevra Kornbluth):
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/ByzDormitionIv.jpg
b) The mid-twelfth-century Dormition mosaic (betw. 1146 and 1151) in the
chiesa di Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio (a.k.a. chiesa della Martorana) in
Palermo:
http://www.icon-art.info/masterpiece.php?lng=en&mst_id=3700
http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=1&id=3700
c) The later twelfth-century (1170s?) Dormition (right) and Assumption
(left) reliefs on the lintel of the central portal of the west facade of
Senlis' cathédrale Notre-Dame:
http://tinyurl.com/4xdr2m9
The tympanum relief above portrays the Virgin in Majesty:
http://tinyurl.com/3ho7tvu
d) The Dormition as depicted (at far right) in a later twelfth-century icon
in the monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai:
http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=1&id=3667
e) The Dormition as portrayed in a panel of Bonanno Pisano's later
twelfth-century bronze door (later 1180s) for Pisa's cathedral's Porta San
Ranieri and now in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo there:
http://tinyurl.com/4xf7k6p
f) The late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century "Cloud Icon" of the
Dormition, from the Desyatinny monastery in Veliky Novgorod and now in the
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow:
http://www.belygorod.ru/img2/Ikona/Used/257Uspenie12_13.jpg
g) An enlargeable but not very good image of (at right) the originally late
twelfth- or early thirteenth-century Dormition (and Glorification) window
(betw. 1190 and 1210; much restored) in Angers' cathédrale Saint-Maurice,
followed by several much better detail views of the same window:
http://tinyurl.com/3lmp7uy
http://tinyurl.com/3s5q5wa
http://tinyurl.com/4xpjdrl
http://tinyurl.com/3r7dboo
http://tinyurl.com/3b9aco8
http://tinyurl.com/3dlzlje
http://tinyurl.com/3rq6ebm
David King's review in _Vidimus_, no. 48, of Karine Boulanger's recent _Les
Vitraux de la Cathédrale d’Angers_ (Paris: CTHS, 2010) suggests a different
arrangement of the panels. See:
http://vidimus.org/issues/issue-48/feature/
h) A page of expandable views of the early thirteenth-century (betw. 1205
and 1215) Glorification of the Virgin window in Chartes' cathédrale
Notre-Dame, with detail views of, _inter alia_, Mary's death, the reception
of her soul by Christ in Heaven, and her entombment:
http://tinyurl.com/3nyzntc
i) The Dormition and the Coronation of the Virgin as depicted in the
earlier thirteenth century (ca. 1225) Psalter of St. Louis and Blance of
Castille (Paris, BnF, ms. Arsenal 1186, fol. 29v):
http://tinyurl.com/3gu4b58
j) The earlier thirteenth-century (betw. 1205 and 1230) Dormition and
Assumption reliefs on the lintel of the central portal of the north porch,
cathédrale Notre-Dame, Chartres:
http://tinyurl.com/4xskuah
http://tinyurl.com/3phkjl4
k) The earlier thirteenth-century (ca. 1240?) tympanum relief of the
Dormition on the south portal of the cathédrale Notre-Dame, Strasbourg:
http://tinyurl.com/2afmkn
http://tinyurl.com/3uo2t2j
l) The Dormition (at left) and Assumption (at right) as portrayed on the
earlier thirteenth-century lintel reliefs (betw. 1225 and 1250;
nineteenth-century polychrome) of the Bergportaal ('Hill Portal') of the
basilica of St. Servatius in Maastricht (photograph by Genevra Kornbluth):
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/Servatius2.jpg
m) The Dormition as depicted in a mid-thirteenth-century glass window (ca.
1250-1260) in the Museum Schnütgen, Köln (photograph by Gordon Plumb):
http://tinyurl.com/3t6ubuw
n) The later thirteenth-century Dormition fresco (either ca. 1263-1270 or
slightly later) in the monastery church of the Holy Trinity at Sopoćani
(Raška dist.) in Serbia:
http://tinyurl.com/4246jtd
http://tinyurl.com/4yqm6jv
Greatly expandable detail views are here:
http://tinyurl.com/3tnycct
o) An expandable view of the Dormition as depicted in a late
thirteenth-century copy of French origin of the _Legenda aurea_ (San Marino,
CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 101r):
http://tinyurl.com/3bs93ov
p) A late thirteenth-century Dormition fresco (1294 or 1295) in the church
of the Peribleptos in Ohrid:
http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=1&id=3779
q) The Dormition scene in Jacopo Torriti's late thirteenth-century apse
mosaic (completed, 1296) in Rome's basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore:
http://www.wga.hu/art/t/torriti/mosaic/5scene5.jpg
Detail views:
http://www.wga.hu/art/t/torriti/mosaic/5scene51.jpg
http://www.wga.hu/art/t/torriti/mosaic/5scene52.jpg
r) Pietro Cavallini's late thirteenth-century Dormition mosaic (betw. 1296
and 1300) in Rome's basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere:
http://www.wga.hu/art/c/cavallin/mosaic/6scene.jpg
http://www.wga.hu/art/c/cavallin/mosaic/6scene1.jpg
The verse inscriptions for this cycle were composed by cardinal Jacopo
Stefaneschi, a brother of the donor; as this example shows, insufficient
attention was given to insuring that the mosaicists would render accurately
the written texts.
s) The Dormition as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century mosaic (betw.
1315 and 1321), Chora Church (Kariye Camii), Istanbul:
http://tinyurl.com/3wrg7ea
http://tinyurl.com/4xfnkvg
t) The Dormition as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century fresco (betw.
1322 and 1324) in the nave of the church of St. Demetrius in the
Patriarchate of Peć at Peć in, depending on one's view of the matter, either
the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/42rfxvu
Detail views:
http://tinyurl.com/4y6vooj
http://tinyurl.com/3lmynmh
u) The Dormition and the Assumption as depicted in earlier
fourteenth-century frescoes (1330s) in the nave of the church of the
Hodegetria in the Patriarchate of Peć at Peć in, depending on one's view of
the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and
Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/3ggkb74
http://tinyurl.com/4xyuqgw
http://tinyurl.com/3ue2yj8
v) The Dormition and the Funeral of Mary as depicted by the Fauvel master
in an earlier fourteenth-century illustrated collection of French-language
saint's lives (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 183, fols. 58r, 59v):
http://tinyurl.com/4xp7bq4
http://tinyurl.com/3qopwxv
w) The Assumption as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century (ca.
1326-1350) collection of French-language saint's Lives (Paris, BnF, ms.
Français 185, fol. 23r):
http://tinyurl.com/3namtmw
x) The Dormition as depicted in a mid-fourteenth-century (1348) copy of the
_Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris,
BnF, ms. Français 241, fol. 204r):
http://tinyurl.com/3za6eus
y) The Dormition and Assumption relief on Andrea Orcagna's later
fourteenth-century Tabernacle (1359) in Florence's chiesa di Orsanmichele:
http://www.wga.hu/art/o/orcagna/tabern_2.jpg
z) The later fourteenth-century Dormition fresco in the church of St.
Demetrius, Marko monastery in Markova Sušica (Studeničani municipality),
Skopje, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, completed 1371:
http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/monmarkovi/MadonnaDormition.jpg
http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/monmarkovi/MaryDormCX.jpg
aa) A full-page Dormition illumination, by the Painter of Syuniq, in a
fourteenth- or fifteenth-century Armenian-language Gospels (Yerevan,
Matenadaran Ms. 6305):
http://www.armsite.com/miniatures/mnshow.phtml?slide=47
bb) The Dormition as depicted in an early fifteenth-century copy (ca.
1410-1412) of Marco Polo's _Devisement du monde_ (Paris: BnF, ms. Français
2810, fol. 163r):
http://tinyurl.com/4xz59y8
cc) The Dormition as depicted in an earlier fifteenth-century Novgorod
School icon now in the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg:
http://www.belygorod.ru/img2/Ikona/Used/258UspenieGRM.jpg
dd) The seemingly fifteenth-century Dormition fresco in the church of Agios
Ioannis in Deliana (Chania prefecture) on Crete (first a small view for
color, then a page with expandable views of this painting and of others in
the same church:
http://tinyurl.com/3hk3poh
http://www.angelfire.com/super2/greece/deliana.html
ee) The Dormition as depicted in an earlier fifteenth-century mosaic (1442
or 1443) by Andrea del Castagno in the basilica di San Marco in Venice:
http://www.wga.hu/art/a/andrea/castagno/1_1440s/042dormi.jpg
ff) The Dormition as depicted in a mid-fifteenth-century panel painting in
the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (photograph by Genevra Kornbluth):
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/TretyakovDormition.html
gg) The Dormition as portrayed in the central panel of Veit Stoss' late
fifteenth-century polychromed wood altarpiece (betw. 1477 and 1489) in the
church of St. Mary, Kraków:
http://tinyurl.com/3zewa2u
Best,
John Dillon
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