Uspenie

[Olga Meerson]

Dormition. Besides Assumption, in the Western Church there is also another moment isolated--the Coronation of the Virgin (sic! only Western!). Lots of wonderful Italian examples, as early and beautiful as Agnolo Gaddi and Paolo Veneziano, but none in the East. Uspenie is Dormition only, although it includes all these but not as separate moments or iconographic canons.
o.m. 

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