Three-Panel Icon with the ""Deesis""

16th century (early Modern)

25.8 cm 31.1 cm 2.1 cm

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These exquisite panels form a group called a "Deesis" ("prayer" or "entreaty"), in which Christ is flanked by the Virgin and John the Baptist, who plead with him for mercy on behalf of humankind. Although the arrangement and choice of figures are Byzantine in origin, the simp...

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