Portable Triptych Icon: Adoration of the Miracle-Working Icon of the Vladimir Mother of God

1600s

painted wood panel within enameled brass frame

6.2 × 6 cm (2.4 × 2.4 in)

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

This is part of a triptych icon and was probably commissioned by a lay person for private prayer and meditation. It could be folded and shut when not in use. The scene represented is the Adoration of the Miracle-Working Icon of the Vladimir Mother of God. Small portable icons such as this were common to later Russian religious practice.

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