La Vara di Messina 'a "Machine" a pyramid showing visible the moment the taking into heaven of the Virgin in its structure are in fact laid the depiction of the Virgin surrounded by the apostles died, according to the Byzantine iconography of the Dormition or koimesis virginis, and climbing up a representation of the seven heavens, ' Alma Maria had to cross to arrive at 'Empyrean, all synthesized by a curtain of clouds surrounded by the sun and moon, yet Ptolemy conceived, and higher again in the third deck, a celestial globe with gold stars, representing perhaps the fixed stars, and then the top wing of the "machine" the portrait of Jesus Christ on his right hand holding the Alma Maria, the soul of the Virgin assumed into heaven.
fonte: http://www.webalice.it/colapisci/Cola-Festa/vara/lavara.htm
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