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| Keywords: Byzantine - Dormition of the Virgin - Walters 71135.jpg This ivory follows the common model of a Byzantine scene of the Virgin on her deathbed surrounded by Christ the apostles and angels Here the Virgin's child-like soul is depicted twice on the left an angel receives the soul; on the right the same angel carries it to paradise Since the figures' eyes and noses are similar to those carved on ivories in 11th-century Germany this plaque may be a western European copy after a Byzantine prototype century 10 11 Medieval ivory cm 13 6 12 3 1 accession number 71 135 35503 Hanri Daguerre Paris by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1926 Early Christian and Byzantine Art Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1947 place of origin Constantinople present-day Istanbul Turkey Walters Art Museum license Byzantine ivory in the Walters Art Museum Decorative and applied arts of Byzantine Empire Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Deathbeds in art | ||||
