Stock Photo - Death of the Virgin The Death of the Virgin, Fragment from the Marian Altar of the Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady in Den Bosch, In a wooden bedstead surrounded by the twelve apostles, Mary is completely dressed head and child on a large pillow under a blanket. She is portrayed at the moment of her death, as her face shows with her eyes closed and her mouth open. On the left, an apostle seems to be supporting her pillow with the hand, John is leaning next to him with his elbow on the edge of the bed and resting his cried face against his hand. In the middle is Peter, dressed as a priest with stool and manipel, holding an open book with his left hand. He makes a blessing gesture with the judge, while he speaks the prayers of the dying. He is assisted by an apostle, who holds the candle upright in Mary's hands. To the left of Peter two apostles, apparently wrapped in a lively conversation, one of them leaving the hat hanging on the head. To the right two apostles, one of whom has thrown over the mantle and the other wears a cap with ear flaps. More to the right an apostle with a raised hand, who appears to have just arrived and looks over the back of the one standing in front of him. At the end of the foot an apostle lost in thought with an open book in the right hand and the left on the bed, another, wearing a kaproen, waves a censer. On the elevation, on which the bedstead is placed, an apostle with his mantle over his head is reading in a book, the fingers of the right hand between the leaves, the Dormition: Mary on her deathbed, the apostles are gathered around her (John the Evangelist may be shown sleeping or dreaming), 's-Hertogenbosch, Adriaen van Wesel, Utrecht, c. 1475 - c. 1477, oak (wood), h 76.5 cm × w 59 cm × d 23.5 cm