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The Death of the Virgin
Also titled Het sterfbed van Maria
c. 1500
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 8.3 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
In the late Middle Ages, the death of the Virgin was usually represented in a contemporary domestic set-ting. Gathered around her bed are the twelve apostles. At upper centre Peter is about to bless the dying Virgin with a holy water sprinkler, while others are praying and reading in preparation for her departure.
