id:			283088
accession number:	2016.32
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2016.32
updated:		2023-12-08 21:52:10.188000

Icon of the New Testament Trinity, c. 1450. Byzantium, Constantinople. Tempera and gold on wood panel (poplar); 35.5 x 62.5 x 2.7 cm (14 x 24 5/8 x 1 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Trust 2016.32

title:				Icon of the New Testament Trinity
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creation date:			c. 1450
creation date earliest:		1445
creation date latest:		1455
current location:		105 Byzantine
creditline:			Severance and Greta Millikin Trust
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culture:	Byzantium, Constantinople
technique:	Tempera and gold on wood panel (poplar)
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Byzantine
type:		Painting
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measurements: 35.5 x 62.5 x 2.7 cm (14 x 24 5/8 x 1 1/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Ο ΠΑΛΑΙΟC ΤΗΩ- God the Father as Christ in old age on right identified on either side of his head in gold, outlined in red.
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	inscription:	ΤΟ ΑΙΟΝ ΠΝΑ- The Holy Spirit, identified by dove in gold outlined in red.
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	inscription:	ΙΩCHΦ Ο ΠΟΙΗΤΗC- St. Joseph the Hymnographer identified on the left by gold letters, outlined in red.
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	inscription:	ΚΟCΜ Ο ΠΟΙΗΤΗC- St. Kosmas the Hymnopgrapher identified on the right in gold letters in red outline
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	inscription:	"'together with...you my God' and 'your dominion" in Scroll of Kosmas on the right.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Danish Museum of Decorative Arts, 1913.<br>Oslo, Museum of Decorative Arts, 1913.<br>Berlin, Kustgewerbnuseum, 1914<br>New York, Ehrich Galleries, 5th Avenue, 1915<br>Gothenberg, Rohsska Konstslojdmuseet, 1915<br>Lund University Art Museum, 1915

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PROVENANCE

	Halvor Bagge [Danish, 1866-1939?]
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	Professor Einar Frank-Utzon [Danish, 1888-1985], Copenhagen, Denmark
	date: 1888-1955
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	Henrik Schleppegrel, Copenhagen, Denmark
	date: 1955-2013
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	(Bruun-Rasmussen Auctioneers, Copenhagen, sale, June 6, 2013)
	date: 2013
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	(Temple Gallery, London) sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 2013-2016
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
	date: 2016-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Bagge, Halvor. Exhibition of the Halvor Bagge Collection of Byzantine Paintings, Carvings, Manuscripts, Embroideries, Etc. New York: [publisher not identified], 1915.
	page number: 	p. 9, No. 42
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	Fleischer, Jens. "<em>Rundt om en søjlehelgen"</em> Meddelelser fra Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (1993)
	page number: 	pp. 59-71
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IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2016.32/2016.32_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2016.32/2016.32_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2016.32/2016.32_full.tif