September 2024

The Madison Art Collection's Virgin Galaktotrophousa (2021.4.144), an engraved copper plate, and its respective print are currently on loan to The Icon Museum and Study Center for their exhibition, Printing Icons: Modern Process, Medieval Image. JMU was one of six institutions and private collections to loan a work to the exhibition, which is on view from October 18, 2024 - March 30, 2025.

Printing Icons: Modern Process, Medieval Image explores the way print and icon painting interacted over the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries. It showcases works from across the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Russia to illuminate how traditional techniques, such as printing icons after traced panels, shaped perceptions of woodblocks and engravings, and how Western techniques transformed icon painting itself.