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Diptych Icon with Feasts of the Church
(Medieval Europe )
This finely carved wooden diptych (two-panel icon) is set in an elaborate silver frame decorated with pearls. Its outside has images of Saint George and Saint Demetrius on horseback. When open, the diptych was used for personal prayer. Its eighteen small scenes correspond to major feast days of the church calendar: the Raising of Lazarus, Ascension, Entry into Jerusalem, Resurrection, Crucifixion, Lamentation, Pentecost, Saint Nicholas, Dormition (Death) of the Virgin; Transfiguration, Annunciation, Mid-Pentecost (Luke 4:16-28), Baptism, Nativity, Presentation of Christ in the Temple, Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple, Synaxis (Assembly) of the Archangels, and Healing of the Blind Man.
Provenance
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Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 2009 | Shrunken Treasures: Miniaturization in Books and Art. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
Geographies
Greece (Place of Origin)
Measurements
3 1/8 x 4 1/2 x 7/16 in. (8 x 11.4 x 1.1 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Centre Street: Third Floor: Byzantine, Russian, and Ethiopian Icons
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
61.174