[Siobhan]

All Orthodox icons I have seen follow this canon: the Blessed Virgin is asleep in the Lord; her Soul is separate and held by Christ, leaving no doubt as to Her death. That is Dormition.

I meant to say earlier that this is the case after the defeat of the Iconoclasts in Byzantine iconography. It is hard to know what was canon before the Iconoclasts since so much was destroyed. Also, this manner of depiction of the Dormition is not always the case in Syriac iconography. On another tangent, the Falling-Asleep is only depicted as such in Coptic iconography that has been influenced by encounters with post-Iconoclastic Byzantine iconography.

[Pyro7480]

Is NYer's Maronite icon in post 49 "home-grown," or is it influenced by the Latins or the Byzantines?