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"Saint Martyr Adrian and Saint Isidore the Blessed Wonderworker of Rostov"
Central Russia 18th century. About 1750
Size: 22,0 x17, 5x1, 8 cm.
Technique & Material: Single-piece board, chalk gesso, egg tempera, drying oil. Oklad: High levels of jewelry in the Rococo style. Gilding, silvering, embossing, engraving.
Description:
The icon is written in so-called Elizabethan-style of iconography. The style is named for the Russian Empress Elizabeth (December 18, 1709 - December 25, 1761). This style is characterized by interweaving traditional Russian and Western European painting style with the influence of Baroque or Rococo. Mood - easy and joyful, graceful figure and refined shape. The class of painting is very high. Inscriptions are made by melted gold, which underlines the high status of the icon.
Icon has a very rare story. The ideal state of preservation. Unique icon represents high artistic and collection value.
History of the subject and iconography
There are Saint Martyr Adrian and Saint Isidore the Blessed Wonderworker of Rostov, and at the top there is the Lord blesses the Saints. St. Isidore the Blessed Wonderworker of Rostov: He was a native of Prussia, Brandenburg, from a wealthy slavic Catholic family. He was a relative of the Grand Master of the German Order. In his youth, he became Orthodox and renounced the world, started to behave like an idiot and left his parent's rich house with his staff in his hand.
When he came to Russia, he settled in Rostov Veliky and fell in love in it's beauty. He remained to live there. On the high dry place in the city in the middle of a huge puddles he built himself a hut made of branches, and lived there until his death. Many miracles which were made during his life and his death were marked his holiness... The Holy Martyr Adrian suffered during the reign of Emperor Decius (249-251) for confessing Christ.
High Resolution Images: fragments.
Price: EUR 1700.-
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