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Portable Triptych Icon: Adoration of the Miracle-Working Icon of the Vladimir Mother of God
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About this work
This is part of a triptych icon and was probably commissioned by a lay person for private prayer and meditation. It could be folded and shut when not in use. The scene represented is the Adoration of the Miracle-Working Icon of the Vladimir Mother of God. Small portable icons such as this were common to later Russian religious practice.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePortable Triptych Icon: Adoration of the Miracle-Working Icon of the Vladimir Mother of God, 1600s. Byzantium, Russia, Moscow?, Byzantine period, 17th century. Painted wood panel within enameled brass frame; unframed: 6.2 x 6 x 0.5 cm (2 7/16 x 2 3/8 x 3/16 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.c
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