# Dormition of the Virgin [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ANDREA DEL CASTAGNO]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Mosaic ## Commentary The picture shows the mosaic on the right side of the barrel vault of the Mascoli Chapel in St Mark's. It represents the Visitation and the Dormition of the Virgin. Although Jacopo Bellini and Michele Giambono also worked on the cartoon of the mosaic, the composition of the mosaic is by Andrea, who probably produced the cartoon for the mosaic before leaving Venice in 1442. The project was left to languish until the late 1440s, when Venice was more receptive to Florentine style. Then Bellini and Giambono added their own figures, suggesting either that Andrea left the work unfinished or that it was damaged in the intervening years. ## Related artworks - [Christ in the Sepulchre with Two Angels]() - [Christ in the Sepulchre with Two Angels \(synopia\)]() - [Crucifixion and Saints]() - [Crucifixion \(detail\)]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Deposition]() - [Dormition of the Virgin]() - [Dormition of the Virgin]() - [Famous Persons Cycle \(reconstruction\)]() - [Famous Persons: Dante Allighieri]() - [Famous Persons: Eve]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()