Portable Triptych Icon: Adoration of the Miracle-Working Icon of the Vladimir Mother of God
Unknown Artist
1600s
Medium
painted wood panel within enameled brass frame
Dimensions
unframed: 6.2 × 6 × 0.5 cm · closed: 7.3 × 6.9 × 3.4 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Medieval Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Harry F. Stratton
Accession Number
1961.35.c
About this artwork
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.