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With its central panel featuring the Virgin Mary and child Jesus flanked by archangels Gabriel and Michael, this icon reflects the popularity of Marian worship within the Ethiopian liturgy.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"67 \u00d7 74 cm (26 3\/8 \u00d7 29 1\/8 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":74,"height":67,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Tempera on linen, mounted on wood and bound with cord","inscriptions":null,"credit_line":"Director's Fund","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Jacques Mercier. 2000. L'Arche Ethiopienne: Art Chr\u00e9tien d\u2019Ethiope, exh. cat. Paris: Paris mus\u00e9e, Pavillion des Arts, pg. 145. \n\nSam Fogg. 2005. Art of Ethiopia. Paul Holberton Publishing, London, cat. 27, pp. 62-63.\n\nApollo Dec. 2006, Review of the Year, Museum Acquisitions, p. 40 (ill).\n\nKathleen Bickford Berzock, \"Triptych Icon with Central Image of the Virgin and Child,\" The Silk Road and Beyond: Travel Trade, and Transformation, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 33, 1 (2007), pp .76-78; 95.\n\nKathleen Bickford Berzock, \"Triptych Icon with Central Image of the Virgin and Child,\" The Essential Guide, Art Institute of Chicago (2009), pg. 10. \n\nConstantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 75, pp. 186-187 (ill.).","exhibition_history":"Paris, Pavillon des Arts in association with Tigray Cultural Association, Ethiopia, L'Arche Ethiopienne: Art Chr\u00e9tien d\u2019Ethiope, Sept. 27, 2000\u2013Jan. 7, 2001; traveled to Girona, Spain, Caixa Foundation, Jan. 23\u2013Mar. 31, 2001, pg. 145. \n\nNew York, N.Y., Pace Wildenstein Gallery, Art of Ethiopia, Oct. 18\u201329, 2005, cat. 27.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, The Silk Road and Beyond: Travel, Trade, and Transformation, Sept. 30, 2006\u2013Apr. 22, 2007, pp. 76-78 (ill).\n\nNew York, The Metropolian Museum of Art, Africa & Byzantium, Nov. 13, 2023-March 3, 2024, cat. 158; Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, April 14-July 21, 2024.","provenance_text":"Mr. Vesecchi, Milan, Italy [this and the following according to A. 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