Cleveland Museum of Art
Death of the Virgin
Master of Heiligenkreuz
- Date
- c. 1400
- Medium
- tempera and oil with gold on panel
- Culture
- Austria, possibly Bohemia, early 15th Century
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Christ’s apostles visit the Virgin upon her deathbed. Saint Peter, wearing white robes and the papal tiara, performs funerary rites, reciting prayers and sprinkling holy water on the Virgin’s body. Above, angels engraved upon the golden background celebrate the assumption of the Virgin heavenward. Once joined to another panel titled The Death of Saint Clare (National Gallery, Washington, D.C.), this double representation of saintly deaths may have been used in funerary services in the convent of Clarissan nuns for which it was made. The artist was named for a painting that was once in the Cistercian monastery of Heiligenkreuz in Austria.
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