Keywords: Byzantine - Baptism and Ascension of Christ - Walters 61115 - Left Profile.jpg This woodcarving contains images of Christ's Baptism and Ascension accompanied by versified inscriptions and framed with busts of the prophets Elisha Micah Haggai and Joel Saint John Chrysostom and Saint Theodore Stratelates The panel once formed one of the four walls of a rectangular box or cross base Another fragment from the same object with images of the Raising of Lazarus and Dormition Death of the Virgin is now in the Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg inv Omega 265 century 14 Medieval wood cm 24 1 7 6 2 7 accession number 61 115 1670 Léon Gruel Paris date of acquisition unknown by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1929 Translation Baptize Our Lord O son of Zachariah But do not entreat Him to wash the filth from mankind Like an eagle seeing the sun in all its brightness The apostles watch the rising of Our Savior Early Christian and Byzantine Art Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1947 place of origin Greece Walters Art Museum license Byzantine and Early Russian art in the Walters Art Museum Decorative and applied arts of Byzantine Empire Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review |