Currently not on view
Deësis: Christ between Mary and John the Baptist,
early 16th century
Greek
Post-Byzantine
y1951-4
Information
Title
Deësis: Christ between Mary and John the Baptist
Dates
early 16th century
Medium
Tempera and gold leaf on wood panel
Dimensions
25.5 x 21 x 2.1 cm (10 1/16 x 8 1/4 x 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Object Number
y1951-4
Place Made
Crete
Inscription
See accession card for reproductions of inscriptions above Christ, Virgin, and John.;
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Museum purchase from Dr. T. F. Galati, Lawrence, MA, in 1951
- "Recent acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 10, no. 2 (1951): p. 22-23., p. 23
- John-D. LaPlante, From icon to image: Byzantine influence on Pre-Renaissance art in the East and West, (Stanford, CA: Committee for Art at Stanford, 1961).
- Doula Mouriki, 'A Deësis icon in the Art Museum", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 27, no. 1 (1968): 13-28., p. 15 (illus.)
- Program III: "Images of Mary", (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1975)., no. 37; p. 76-78
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 83
- Slobodan Curcic and Archer St. Clair, Byzantium at Princeton: Byzantine art and archaeology at Princeton University: catalogue of an exhibition at Firestone Library, Princeton University, August 1 through October 26, 1986, (Princeton, NJ: Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton University Library, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, 1986)., cat. no. 146; p. 119
- Myrtali Acheimastou-Potamianou, ed., Holy image, holy space: icons and frescoes from Greece, (Athens: Greek Ministry of Culture, Byzantine Museum of Athens, 1988)., p. 152; p. 223 (illus.)
