# Dormition of the Virgin [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BELLINI, Jacopo]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Leadpoint on parchment, 425 x 285 mm ## Commentary Dormition of the Virgin c. 1450 Leadpoint on parchment, 425 x 285 mm Musée du Louvre, Paris The picture shows a page from the notebooks of Jacopo Bellini. In this drawing representing the display of the Virgin Mary's corpse, Bellini constructs an expansive urban space in which all diagonal lines merge toward a single vanishing point at the eye level of the figures within the drawing. ## Related artworks - [Annunciation]() - [Annunciation]() - [Birth of the Virgin]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Flagellation]() - [Jacopo Antonio Marcello]() - [Lamentation \(from the sketchook, folios 57b-58a\)]() - [Madonna and Child Adored by Lionello d'Este]() - [Madonna and Child Blessing]() - [Madonna and Child]() - [Madonna and Child]() - [Madonna with Child]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()