# Apsidal arch: 6. Dormition of the Virgin [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CAVALLINI, Pietro]() - Date: 1251-1300 - Technique: Mosaic ## Commentary Apsidal arch: 6. Dormition of the Virgin 1296-1300 Mosaic Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome The sequence of Mary scenes concludes with the Dormition on the apsidal arch right to the apse. Numerous figures are here compressed onto a narrow stage so tightly that they cannot all find room in the picture space, but are cut off by its edges. The central focus of the picture is the figure of Christ standing behind the deathbed, surrounded by a dark red mandorla and accompanied by two angels. With draped hands he has taken up Mary's soul. ## Related artworks - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Apse: 2. Annunciation]() - [Apse: 3. Nativity of Christ]() - [Apse: 4. Adoration of the Kings]() - [Apse: 5. Presentation in the Temple]() - [Apse: St Peter Recommending Bertoldo Stefanschi to the Virgin]() - [Apsidal arch: 1. Nativity of the Virgin]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Dormition of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Esau Appears to Isaac \(fragment\)]() - [Interior view]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()