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Source Description
This small-scale panel painting depicts the Virgin and Child flanked by the Archangels Michael and Gabriel who guard the mother and child with swords and shelter them with their wings. Below are the Ethiopian Saint Iyalot, her son Saint Qirqos (Saint Cyriacus) who holds the Virgin Mary’s wrist and converses with her, Saint Gebre Krestos, and Saint Ab Nob the Martyr. In an unusual detail, both Mary and Iyalot hold hand crosses, similar to those used by Ethiopian Orthodox clerics (see
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Document identity
localId
6357
label
Right Half of a Diptych with the Virgin and Child Flanked by Angels
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
pageCount
2
Source metadata
id
6357
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Right Half of a Diptych with the Virgin and Child Flanked by Angels
description
This small-scale panel painting depicts the Virgin and Child flanked by the Archangels Michael and Gabriel who guard the mother and child with swords and shelter them with their wings. Below are the Ethiopian Saint Iyalot, her son Saint Qirqos (Saint Cyriacus) who holds the Virgin Mary’s wrist and converses with her, Saint Gebre Krestos, and Saint Ab Nob the Martyr. In an unusual detail, both Mary and Iyalot hold hand crosses, similar to those used by Ethiopian Orthodox clerics (see
provenance
Sam Fogg, London, England [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2002, by purchase.
date
late 15th century
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
icons
imageCount
2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
26.5
height
18.8
dimensionsRaw
H: 10 7/16 x W: 7 3/8 in. (26.5 x 18.8 cm)
Source extras
cul
Christian Highland Ethiopia
med
glue tempera on panel
creator_ids
6264
collection_ids
ETH
exhibition_ids
1958
Page inventory
seq
1
type
photo
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7b5b4bce1cd28cdd
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no
hasDescription
no
seq
2
type
photo
mediaId
b8ae7740aac08bb9
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no