Great Deesis with Prophets

16th century (Early Modern)

81.3 cm 33.7 cm 3.2 cm

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These panels reproduce the upper two tiers of the screen (known as the iconostasis) that separates the nave from the altar in Orthodox churches. Such sets, of which this is one of the earliest known, were used by priests for makeshift altars and by lay people for personal pray...

Drawing

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Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, July 10, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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Byzantine
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