„mich in den Ängsten zu trösten, die mich treffen sollen“ Bilder vom Sterben
„mich in den Ängsten zu trösten, die mich treffen sollen“ Images of dying

Summary/Abstract: It’s well known the life is always related to death. The transition from life to death, the decease or death itself hides the greatest possible challenge of the man, followed by the feeling of loneliness, abandon and fear. In the New Testament this feelings are best described in the pericopes about the Passions of Christ. Jesus had to face fear and fright, for that He went together with Peter, Jacob and John on the Olive Mountain to pray. Fear clear expressed in a stress way by the Evangelists in the praying moment on the Olive Mountain, it was not assumed by the Paleochristian art. Only in the VI th - century it is known a monument which expresses Jesus’ fear in the face of His death. Meanwhile, in the Gospels - which were written in the last quarter of the first Christian century - in the description of the scenes on the Olive Mountain, of the Crucification and death of Jesus, the loneliness, the abandon and the fear appear like a very sharp theme in the Passion of Christ, from the IV-V century in many traditions about the death of the Virgin Mary, appear the comfort of our Lady on her death bed and the communion with her. In the art, in front of death, each man is represented as being alone, but he doesn’t always have to be alone. The image of Mary’s death concentrates this thought: our relatives, our friends and all who took part in our life, gather around our death bed. The dying one thought at himself like a member of the community.

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