Triptych Icon of the Virgin and Child with Saints

10th century (Medieval)

23.4 cm 12 cm 0.9 cm

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The center of this exquisite triptych (three-paneled icon) shows the Virgin holding the Christ Child and pointing toward him with her right hand. This portrait type of the Virgin is known as "Hodegetria," named after a famous icon in the Hodegon monastery in Constantinople, be...

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Heinrich von Hofstätter, Bishop of Passau; Gnadenkapelle, Altötting, Bavaria, 1867, by gift; Tycon and Smith, Paris, 1905, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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