Currently not on view
Head of the Virgin Mary,
15th–16th century
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Didactics
The Museum's collection of Byzantine and post-Byzantine icons was recently enhanced by the addition of six paintings – all tempera on wood panel – and a small wooden host stamp (prosphora), generous gifts from Ann Angleton Hyde of Chatham, New Jersey, in memory of her father, Phocas Angleton (1911–1997). Among the icons, a small panel with the head of the Virgin Mary stands out for the delicacy of its execution. It has been provisionally dated to the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. Apparently a fragment from a larger icon, it was painted in the so-called Italo-Byzantine style, probably on Crete. Particularly sensitive is the treatment of Mary's veils: one of red velvet trimmed with a pseudo-Arabic inscription and a second veil of diaphanous white lace. <br><em>J. Michael Padgett</em> Curator of Ancient Art <br><em>Emily L. Spratt</em> Graduate Student Department of Art and Archaeology
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15th–16th century
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2010," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 70 (2011): p. 69-110., p. 86 (color illus.)
- Emily L. Spratt, "Toward a definition of "Post-Byzantine" art: The Angleton Collection at the Princeton University Art Museum," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 71/72 (2012-13): p. 2–16., p. 13, fig. 14
