Cleveland Museum of Art

Portable Triptych Icon: The Crucifixion

Date

1600s

Medium

painted wood panel within enameled brass frame

Culture

Byzantium. Russia, Moscow?, Byzantine period, 17th century

Department

Medieval Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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.

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