# The Dormition of the Virgin [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN MASTER, German]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Lime-wood, 107 x 100 cm ## Commentary The Dormition of the Virgin c. 1500 Lime-wood, 107 x 100 cm Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao The relief is probably an inner panel of a door of a large altarpiece, and might have been the final episode in a cycle of four reliefs depicting scenes from the life of the Virgin. The altarpiece box was presumably decorated with figures of saints or a scene such as the Coronation of the Virgin. The relief was probably mounted on a painted panel that has not been identified, as neither have been the other parts of the altarpiece. The way the surface has been treated and other details make it clear that the work was polychrome, as were most German sculptures of that period. This high quality relief was probably carved in Eastern Bavaria, in an area between the cities of Landshut, Passau and Salzburg. ## Related artworks - [12 scenes from the Life of Christ]() - [A Bath-House]() - [A carpenter at work]() - [A Knight of the Rehlinger Family]() - [A Lady]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Altarpiece of the Seven Joys of Mary]() - [Altarpiece of the Seven Joys of Mary]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()