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Wooden Panel with Winged Figures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2007

Wooden Panel with Winged Figures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2007
Wooden Panel with Winged Figures
Painted in encaustic
Byzantine
Painted 400-500, in Egypt

Accession # 39.158.1

The pair of naturalistically rendered winged figures, possibly angels, are rendered in encaustic, or melted colored wax, the medium used for the earliest surviving icons.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.
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