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Ivory Icon with the Koimesis of the Virgin Mary

Ivory Icon with the Koimesis of the Virgin Mary





Artist : Anonymous


Date : approx. between 950 and 1000

Material : Ivory
Acquisition : Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan (1917)
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Center
Ground Floor
Item 18 on 80
Objet(s) d'Art
Object of worship

Vitrine : V02 (Ref. 2715)

Area related
Constantinople (Turkey)

Description   

Images of the Koimesis show her lying while her soul, represented as a baby, is offered by Christ to attendant angels who will take it to heaven. The Apostles, led by Saint Paul on the left, and Saint Peter on the right, stand witness. The Koimesis first appears in Byzantine art in the 900s. Its celebration is a principal holy feast day in the Orthodox Church calendar.
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