Byzantine Art Project

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Triptych Icon of the Virgin and Child with SaintsTheotokos

Triptych Icon of the Virgin and Child with Saints

c. 10th century (Middle Byzantine; portable devotional triptych in carved ivory; Macedonian-Renaissance period workshop)· Walters Art Museum
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (Acc. 71.158). Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0) per the Walters' 2012 mass-release of collection imagery to Wikimedia Commons. The underlying 10th-century ivory is in the public domain.