The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 16, 2024
Portable Triptych Icon
1600s
Unframed: 6.5 x 6 x 0.2 cm (2 9/16 x 2 3/8 x 1/16 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.)
Gift of Mrs. Harry F. Stratton 1961.35
Location: not on view
Description
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.- Mrs. Harry F. Stratton (Cleveland, Ohio), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.
- The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Reproduced: p. 481; Mentioned: p. 480-481
- Year in Review (1961). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961).
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