Dormition of the Virgin, The

Print

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Purdue University Galleries

Name/Title

Dormition of the Virgin, The

Entry/Object ID

2005.02.019

Description

This colored lithograph on a silk backed wooden panel with gilding and metal frame shows the Virgin Mary clothed in red, blue, and green robes laid on a bed of white. She is surrounded by eleven male Apostles clothes in cloaks of various colors with sandals, each with gold halos rimmed in red. One on the left holds a black incense burner. On the gold filigree style background, two winged angels clothes in white flank Christ, who holds a white bundle with a face on it. The border of the image contains floral and gold filigree motifs on blue, green, and pink. A Cyrillic caption lines the bottom and another sits under the bottom edge of the frame. A piece of wire is twined in each corner of the icon.

Type of Print

Lithograph

Collection

Betsy Scheuring Icon Collection

Acquisition

Accession

2005.02

Source or Donor

Betsy Scheuring

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Betsy Scheuring

Made/Created

Date made

1915

Place

Country

Russia

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Label

Location

Under bottom edge of frame

Transcription

АКЦ 0.00 В. БОНАКЕРЪ МОСКВА

Language

Cyrillic

Translation

AKC 0.00 V. BONAKERʺ MOSKVA

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Icon

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Symbol, Religious

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Religious Objects

Nomenclature Class

Ceremonial Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Dimensions

Height

5-5/8 in

Width

7 in

Exhibition

Spirit Made Tangible: The Scheuring Icon Collection (2006)

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

In this reduced version of the Dormition, Christ lacks a mandorla and instead appears against a gold ground decorated with a floral scroll, as two white-draped angels flank him with covered hands. Eleven Apostles surround the outstretched Virgin, with one of them placed behind her and bent over her form, and another swinging an incense-burner in the left foreground (see 2005.02.049). The figure style of this image is fully Western, and it lacks an architectural background seen in its Byzantine predecessors (see Cat. Nos. 2005.02.071 and 2005.02.049). The border displays a multi-colored floral scroll.