Portable Triptych Icon
Unknown Artist
1600s
Medium
painted wood panel within enameled brass frame
Dimensions
unframed: 6.5 × 6 × 0.2 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
About this artwork
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.