Virgin and Child enthroned with angels
Успение и Вознесение Богородицы
Dormition and Ascension of the Virgin
- композиция:
- Вознесение Богородицы
- Ascension of the Virgin
Успение
- Dormition
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- tabern3
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- оформление:
- Relief.
- h=1220.
- On the back of the tabernacle, built to house Bernardo Daddi's repainting of a lost image of the Virgin and Child, is the large relief "Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin".
- The two scenes, treated as one, are separated by the horizontal band of the tomb.
- This rocky ledge also marks a dichotomy in contemporary attitudes towards the earthly and the spiritual.
- The Death and Funeral of the Virgin take place on the earth and are physical, but three-dimensional space is suggested only by the histrionic figures who crowd round the Virgin laid out on Her sarcophagus.
- In the middle stands Christ holding a child symbolic of the Virgin's soul, flanked by two angels.
- Above in the flat otherwordly real, the Virgin levitates within a "mandorla" (almond) indicating spirituality and bestows her girdle on the kneeling St Thomas.
- предмет с изображением:
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- tabern_2
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