Keywords: Ethiopian - Right Diptych Panel with Virgin and Child Flanked by Archangels - Walters 363 - Open.jpg The paired holes along the outer edge of the right panel indicate that this painting was originally a triptych now missing its right panel What is seen here as a right wing is standard iconography for central panels combining a Virgin and Child based on the Santa Maria Maggiore icon with Christ Teaching the Apostles Although the Anastasis and the Crucifixion typically flank the central panel here they appear together on the left wing with other scenes The details in this wing stress the Virgin's participation in Christ's Passion thereby providing a moving counterpoint to the central panel where Mary appears with her infant son The density of the icon's pictorial program suggests that the missing panel also featured an extensive narrative Because the left wing ends with the Last Judgment it seems likely that the right wing opened with early scenes from the life of Christ such as the Nativity and concluded with Passion scenes that preceded the Crucifixion The painter's exuberant sense of color is characteristic of early Gondarine painting appearing in both icons and works on parchment The alternating horizontal and vertical bands of color connect this painting to works produced in the region of Lasta late 17th-early 18th century Early Gondarine tempera panel cm 52 1 51 9 ; Left panel cm 52 07 26 03 ; Right panel cm 52 07 25 87 accession number 36 3 4854 Knopfelmacher Collection New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Knopfelmacher 12 William Wright Gallery New York date and mode of acquistion unknown Walters Art Museum 1996 by purchase Museum purchase with funds provided by the W Alton Jones Foundation Acquisition Fund 1996 Angels of Light Ethiopian Art from the Walters Art Museum Birmingham Museum of Art Birmingham; Smith College Museum of Art Northampton; Museum of Biblical Art New York 2006-2007 Ethiopian Art at The Walters The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1996 Realms of Faith Medieval and Byzantine Art from the Walters Art Museum Frist Center for the Visual Arts Nashville 2001-2002 Realms of Faith Medieval and Byzantine Art from the Walters Art Museum Frist Center for the Visual Arts Nashville 2002-2005 place of origin Lasta in present-day Ethiopia Walters Art Museum license 3D Art of Ethiopia in the Walters Art Museum Church paintings in Ethiopia Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Madonna and Child |