Category: Icons
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2 Religious Icon, Virgin of the Burning Bush and the Theotokos of Unburnt Bush with footnotes #22
The subject of Our Lady of the Burning Bush is based on the Old Testament prophecy of the incarnation of Christ. Such theologians as St Gregory of Nyssa and Theodoret of Cyrrhus regarded Moses’s vision of the burning bush as a symbol and prototype of the Virgin Mary and the Immaculate Conception. The iconography of…
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1 Religious Icon, 19th C. Russian Icon of St. Alexander Svirsky, with footnotes #21
St. Alexander Svirsky spent much of time of his life as a monk, including some period of total isolation from society. In 1506, Serapion, Archbishop of Novgorod, appointed him Hegumen of the Trinity monastery, which later became known as Alexander-Svirsky Monastery, at the place of the saint’s eremitic life between Roschinsky and Holy lakes.A rendition of…
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1 Religious Icon, 19th C. Russian Icon of Saints Catherine , Natalya, Ann the Prophetess, Ljubov, John, and Alexander and Saint Anne, with footnotes #20
An icon presenting an ensemble of blessed saints, including Catherine , Natalya, Ann the Prophetess, Ljubov (Love, more commonly interpreted as Charity), John, and Alexander standing in two rows. The seventh saint is most likely John the Evangelist. Each saint is identified with a gold on blue banner, all beneath Saint Anne in the celestial realm aloft billowing clouds donning…
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1 Religious Icon, 18th C. Russian Icon, Christ Emmanuel, with footnotes #19
The text beneath may refer to a passage of Isaiah that Christ read in the synagogue of Nazareth, “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the afflicted”. The prophet Isaiah coined the term Emmanuel which means God is with us, and this…
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1 Religious Icon, A Greek icon of St John the Baptist, with footnotes #18
The Winged Saint shown carrying a chalice containing his own head and an open scroll. More on this IconJohn the Baptist, known as the prophet Yahya in the Qur’an, was a Jewish itinerant preacher in the early first century AD. John is revered as a major religious figure in Christianity, Islam, the Bahá’í Faith, and Mandaeism. He…
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1 Religious Icon, Spanish School’s Annunciation, with footnotes #18
The Virgin appears kneeling in front of a table decorated with a red cloth with gold trim.. The arrival of the archangel has caused the Virgin to put down her book and turn her face to observe the unexpected visitor. Saint Gabriel, is in the act of approaching the Virgin. In his left hand he…
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1 Religious Icon, Northern Netherlandish School’s Nativity, with footnotes #17
This painted Nativity, which emphasises the humble nature of Christ’s birth, offers an intimate portrayal of the Holy Family. Kneeling in a ruined stable, the Virgin gazes devoutly down at the Christ Child, His small and vulnerable body resting on a fold of her drapery, while Joseph is shown removing his hat as a sign…
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1 Religious Icon, Stefano di Giovanni, detto il Sassetta’s Madonna of the Snow, with footnotes #13
White, soft, icy snow is a rare sight in the Mediterranean city of Rome during winter, let alone during summer. Yet, according to tradition, the founding of one of Rome’s most important Catholic churches took place on an extraordinary snowfall day in August of 352. On August 5 of 352, a wealthy Roman nobleman and…
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1 Religious Icon, George Klontzas’ Three Church Hierarchs, with footnotes #12
The Saints are depicted against a gold ground, in frontal position with elongated bodies and relatively small heads, each making a blessing gesture and holding a jewelled closed Book of Gospels, robed in precious bishop’s garments with striking geometric ornament of crosses set within squares and circles of a type worn during the Byzantine period. More…
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1 Russian Icon, Sano di Pietro, Madonna and Child, with footnotes #10
This work in particularly displays an extremely refined and very high level of craftsmanship, probably reinforced by Pietro’s work as a miniaturist for major institutions like the Opera Metropolitana di Siena, and the monastery of Monte Oliveto Maggiore. In this small-scale devotional painting the Virgin appears in half-length in front of a gold background as she…
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1 Russian Icon, Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, with footnotes #6
An icon painted in two registers. Greece, 1744Heavy Softwood single panel. Egg tempera on gesso (gypsum), Konturritzungen, partially gilded. In the upper frame a full figure enthroned Christ flanked by the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist. The underlying three selected saints: St. Athanasius, St. Nicholas and St. Charalampi.… The upper frame is dated ‘1744’ ‘. 36.4 x 26.6 cm . Saint Athanasius…
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1 Russian Icon, Saints Sergey and Barlaam kneeling at the feet of Jesus Christ, with footnotes #9
An icon portraying Saints Sergey and Barlaam kneeling at the feet of Jesus Christ who stands on a small plinth. Jesus wears flowing red vestments beneath a dark-blue robe, holds the open Holy Gospel in his left hand, reaches his right hand toward Saint Sergey, and has a coronal halo behind his gentle visage. Saints…
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1 Religious Icon, Luca Signorelli’s Saint Nicholas of Bari saving three knights, with footnotes #11
The reign of Constantine The Great was not always stable. Borders had to be protected, laws enforced and if unrest broke out or even a sniff of conspiracy surfaced, Constantine also dealt with these matters seriously and harshly. Often though he left law enforcement in regional centres to be carried out by governors and local…
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1 Russian Icon, Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, with footnotes #8
Saint Nicholas of Myra (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), was an early Christian bishop of the ancient Greek city of Myra in Asia Minor during the time of the Roman Empire. Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, and students in various cities and countries…
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1 Icon, Sir Robert James Philipson’s Iconostasis, with footnotes #7
Sir Robert (Robin) James Philipson RA RSA FRSE RSW (1916–1992) was a Lancashire-born painter who was influential within the Scottish art scene for over three decades. He was then schooled at Dumfries Academy and then studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1936 to 1940. On the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the…
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1 Russian Icon, with footnotes #5
Nimbus hallmarked ornamental. Image-filling representation of the seated Virgin in three-quarter figure, holding the crucifix with the crucified Christ in her hands. About her green tunic she wears the red maphorion which is contoured by white and black shades. a western-style transparent head-cover complimented by the traditional maphorion. The halo is finely tooled.Okhtyrka, also known by its Russian variant…
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A. Vassilieff, POKROFF ICON OF THE MOTHER OF GOD; 1 Russian Icon, with footnotes #10
The Dormition of the Mother of God is a Great Feast of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches which commemorates the “falling asleep” or death of Mary the Theotokos (“Mother of God”, literally translated as God-bearer), and her bodily resurrection before being taken up into heaven. More on POKROFF ICON OF THE MOTHER OF GOD…
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Cretan School; Mother of Consolation Veneto-Cretan and Saint Monica 1 Russian Icon, with footnotes, #4
Image-filling representation of the half-length Mother of God; depicted half-length wearing a blue tunic and a brown maphorion.. She holds the Christ Child in her left arm. He has raised his right hand in blessing and holds with his left the globe. His himation is decorated with a gold-Chrysographie. Next to them, the Saint Catherine appears. The earliest story tells of Saint…
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St. Pachomius the Great, St. Alexander Nevsky, St. Dimitry Uglicheski and St. Mary Magdalene 1 Russian Icon, with footnotes, #3
The four saints depicted standing beneath the ascended Christ Pachomius (c. 292 – 9 May 348 A.D.), also known as Pachome and Pakhomios, is generally recognized as the founder of Christian cenobitic monasticism. Coptic churches celebrate his feast day on 9 May, and Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches mark his feast on 15 May or…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today is Prophet Zephaniah’s day, With Footnotes – 130
Prophet Zephaniah, old Russian Orthodox iconFirst quarter of XVIII centuryIconostasis of Kizhi Monastery, Karelia, Russia Zephaniah is the name of several people in the Hebrew Bible and Jewish Tanakh. His name is commonly transliterated Sophonias in Bibles translated from the Latin Vulgate or Septuagint. The most well-known Biblical figure bearing the name Zephaniah is the son of Cushi,…
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