The Dormition

Origin: Russia
Age: XIXth Century
Composition: Tempera on wood
Measures Cms: 71,0 X 56,1 X 3,0

We observe the reality of the death, the soul goes out of the body but it does not descend to the Sheol, to the hell, as it would correspond to the Jewish conception. Neither she does not even rise herself to the sky, as the Greek platonic conception. She is taken by Christ’s hands: “the souls of the just persons are in God’s hands?. Christ has in the hand the soul of his Mother with the same tenderness with which she had in arms God personified in the shape of child.