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Portable Triptych Icon: The Crucifixion
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About this work
This triptych icon was probably commissioned by a lay person for private prayer and meditation. It could be folded and shut when not in use. The scenes represented from left to right are: The Crucifixion (left); The Resurrection and Anastasis (center); and Adoration of the Miracle-Working Icon of the Vladimir Mother of God (right). Small portable icons such as this were common to later Russian religious practice.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePortable Triptych Icon: The Crucifixion, 1600s. Byzantium. Russia, Moscow?, Byzantine period, 17th century. Painted wood panel within enameled brass frame; unframed: 6.5 x 6.2 x 0.7 cm (2 9/16 x 2 7/16 x 1/4 in.); closed: 7.3 x 6.9 x 3.4 cm (2 7/8 x 2 11/16 x 1 5/16 in.); open and extended: 7 x 19.1 cm (2 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Harry F. Stratton, 1961.35.b
