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About this work
This is an important Ethiopian Orthodox icon that was once owned by a parsonage. On the proper right panel it depicts the gruesome scene of St. George being chopped into pieces below the twelve apostles and the saint himself killing a dragon. The proper left panel features the Virgin Mary and child with an angel above each shoulder.
National Museum of African Art’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineIcon. 15th-16th century. Ethiopian Orthodox. National Museum of African Art, Gift of Joseph and Patricia Brumit, Conservation of this artwork supported by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee. CC0.
