# The Dormition of the Virgin

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## Artwork

- Artist: [RITZOS, Andreas](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ritzos-andreas-r7ec97ed2cdfd75>)
- Date: 1451-1500
- Technique: Tempera on panel, 85 x 54,5 cm

## Commentary

Andreas Ritzos was a representative of the Cretan School of icon painting in the late fifteenth century. This icon shows the established pattern for this subject in fifteenth-century Byzantine art.

## Related artworks

- [Mother of God Enthroned](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ritzos-andreas-r7ec97ed2cdfd75/mother-of-god-enthroned-rf65cf1c1c946ec>)
- [The Mother of God Enthroned](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ritzos-andreas-r7ec97ed2cdfd75/the-mother-of-god-enthroned-r692f1aa90107bc>)
- [The Mother of God of Passion](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ritzos-andreas-r7ec97ed2cdfd75/the-mother-of-god-of-passion-reb034bf4cbbe8d>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)