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Icon Revetment
Precious-metal cover added to an icon, increasingly prominent in Middle and Late Byzantine devotion while leaving selected image areas visible.
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Materials Laboratory profile
Metalwork + revetment
Revetment + mounting · 4 registered sources
Source-scope / reconstruction noteA cover, frame, mount, and painted/carved icon can have different dates and makers; BIU never collapses them into one material history.
Raw material / support2 records
Making technique2 records
Finish / assembly1 record
Surviving object evidence3 records
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Surviving objects
5 explicit edgesRoundel of Saint Panteleimon (Met 51.198)via Precious Metal · ← can-use-material · qualified-source-backedReliquary Cross with Christ and the Virgin (Met 1999.519.9)via Copper Alloy · ← uses-material · source-backedDouble-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)via Cloisonné Enamel · ← uses-technique · source-backedOne of a Pair of Temple Pendants, with Busts of Male Saints Holding Martyr's Cross (front) and Leaf and Rosette Motifs (back)via Cloisonné Enamel · ← uses-technique · source-backedRoundel of Saint Panteleimon (Met 51.198)via Cloisonné Enamel · ← uses-technique · source-backed
Icon types + scenes
1 explicit edgeHistory + chronology
1 explicit edgePlaces + sacred space
2 explicit edgesTechnical source trail
Sources supporting this making profile.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Panel from a Cover for an Icon of the Virgin
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Panel from a Cover for an Icon of the Virgin
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public-domain-image-and-open-access-data
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Frame
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Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Frame
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public-domain-image-and-open-access-data
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Censer Handle with Virgin Orant
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Censer Handle with Virgin Orant
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public-domain-image-and-open-access-data
Discovery profile
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4 bounded direct results · 12 bounded two-step paths · 1 navigation theme
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IconIcon Revetment —covers→ Icon · source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-133.Post-Iconoclast Icon Forms and CoversIcon Revetment ←includes— Post-Iconoclast Icon Forms and Covers · source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-340.Precious MetalIcon Revetment —uses-material→ Precious Metal · source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-132.Cloisonné EnamelIcon Revetment —can-use-technique→ Cloisonné Enamel · qualified-source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-446.
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uses-materialPrecious Metal
source-backed · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source trail
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Panel from a Cover for an Icon of the Virgin
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Panel from a Cover for an Icon of the Virgin
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public-domain-image-and-open-access-data
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