File:Byzantine Empire Christological diptych 01.jpg
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[edit]Christological diptych.
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| Artist |
Anonymous (Byzantine Empire) |
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| Title |
Christological diptych. |
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| Date | turn of the 11/12th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | ivory | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | 22.4 × 9.7 cm (8.8 × 3.8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location |
ground floor |
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| Accession number |
129811 |
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| Object history |
transferred to Private collection, Vilnius after 1945: bequeathed to National Museum in Warsaw (MNW) by Józef Kojdecki |
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| Notes | Scenes represented: the Annunciaction, the Nativity, the Meeting with Symeon, the Baptism, the Transfiguration, the Entry to Jerusalem, the Rising of Lazarus, the Last Supper, the Crucifixion, Two Marys at the Sepulchre, the Harrowing of Hell, the Doubting of Thomas, the Ascension, the Mesopentecost (Mediante die Festo). The inscription at the edges reads as follows: Look, how the horrors of divine miracles / have enriched these small plaques. Do not admire art, but the principal / who made so many delightful things by his acute mind. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| References | Paulina Ratkowska (1965). An east Christian diptych with the heortological cycle in: Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie. No. 6, pic. 1,2, pp. 92, 93-96 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | Own work | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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