Death of the Virgin (van der Goes)
Triptych by Hugo van der Goes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Death of the Virgin (van der Goes)?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
The Death of the Virgin is an oil-on-oak-panel painting by the Flemish painter Hugo van der Goes. Completed c 1472–1480, it shows the Virgin Mary on her deathbed surrounded by the Twelve Apostles. The scene is borrowed from Jacobus de Voragine's thirteenth-century "Legenda aurea"[1] which relates how the apostles were brought, at Mary's request, on clouds by angels to a house near Mount Zion to be with her in her final three days.[2] On the third day Jesus appeared above her bed in a halo of light surrounded by angels to accept her soul at the point when his name was finally mentioned.[3] Three days later he reappeared to accept her body.