Object Number | 2011-17-1 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Ethiopia |
Date Made | ca. 1966 CE |
Section | African |
Materials | Vellum | Pigment |
Technique | Painted |
Iconography | Madona | Virgin Mary | Child | Archangel | Sword |
Description | Icon - Seated Madonna / Virgin Mary and Christ Child flanked behind by 2 winged archangels with swords. Madonna wears red gown, overrobe - green interior, blue exterior with yellow stars and edging, green veil with yellow edging and hold blue cloth. Child wears green gown with yellow edging and hold white object / book (?). Both Madonna and Child have red and yellow halos. Angels hold ends of canopy - red exterior, blue interior - in one hand; white blade with yellow hilt in opposite. Angels in blue garment with yellow collars. Vellum with bright red, blue, green and yellow pigment. |
Height | 37.7 cm |
Width | 29.5 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Bernard Wailes, University of Pennsylvania Professor Emeritus, 2011 |
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