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| Keywords: Greek - Saint Andrew - Walters 37559.jpg Saint Andrew holding a scroll looks intently to his left indicating that the panel once may have formed part of a group of icons with Christ at the center It may have been placed on the upper tier of an iconostasis the screen dividing the sanctuary from the nave in an Orthodox Church The color scheme of the icon is unusual in its use of extremely bright colors for the saint's robe and a mustard yellow - instead of gold - for the background century 14 Medieval tempera on wood with gilt cm 26 20 5 2 2 accession number 37 559 39354 Alexandre Polovtsoff Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov Paris by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1930 Holy Image Holy Space Icons and Frescoes from Greece The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore; Center for the Fine Arts Miami; Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco San Francisco; The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland; The Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond 1988-1990 place of origin north Macedonia Greece Walters Art Museum license 2D Byzantine and Early Russian art in the Walters Art Museum Icons of Greece Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Icons of St Andrew | ||||
