Ivory Icon with Three Church Fathers in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2011

Icon with Three Church Fathers

Date: ca. 1500 or later

Culture: Greek

Medium: Ivory with dark stain

Dimensions: Overall: 2 5/8 x 2 x 1/4 in. (6.7 x 5.1 x 0.6 cm)

Classification: Ivories

Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917

Accession Number: 17.190.130

Description:

The church fathers identified by inscriptions on this small icon, Saints Basil, John Chrysostom, and Gregory [of Nazianzos], played a critical role in establishing church doctrine during the first centuries of Christianity.


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