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References
- This method of narration appears already in the Middle Byzantine painting: for example, in the Christmas icon from the Monastery of St. Catherine, at Sinai (ca. 1100) [1, p. 261‒262].
- The prologue scene (Virgin saying her goodbuy to women) and the epilogue scene (the Apostles carry her coffin) extend the narration similarly to how it was developed in the literature.
- The sermons on the Dormition of the Virgin by John of Damascus stand out among various hymns and sermons that influenced this iconography, in particularly, during the Palaeologan period [23].