"Mother of God - Unexpected Joy"

High Resolution Images: fragments.

Russia. Mountain Ural. Nevyansk. 18th century, around 1800.

Size: 26.5 x 21.4 cm.
Technique & Material: Monolithic cypress board, egg tempera, gold leaf with engraved, melted gold, drying oil.

Description:   * Nevyansk Icon * - the Old Believer icon painting school, which was established in Nevyansk, Mountain Ural.

In Nevyansk worked only very strong master icon painters, that were invited there and were creating often masterpieces. It is very necessary to separate the Ural school and the Nevyansk school. The Ural Icon school represents though highly professional, all the same provincial, partly folklore iconography. The Nevyansk school represents always an artistic phenomenon. Masters of Nevyansk were painting a small number of icons, so each their work is unique and perfect execution from making a board for painting to the last stage manufacturing of the icon itself. A distinctive feature is the special relationship of the masters to the icon. Everything was done very carefully and efficiently, on the high artistic level. This icon perfectly demonstrates this:

Nevyanks school is the peak of the Ural Old Believers iconography. A characteristic feature of this icon "Unexpected Joy" and of the Nevyansk school is a synthesis of the traditions of pre-Peter Russia, orientation on the iconography of the 16th - 17th centuries and at the same time tangible influence of Baroque and Classicism. This icon shows an extraordinary expressiveness and spirituality, festivity, brightness, abundance of the real quality gold, with exquisite engraving on the fields.

In a rich and varied list of colors, there are carmine and cinnabar, kraplak and bakan, Berlin azure and Schweinfurth greenery. Their complicated combination explains the complex unique gamma of Nevyansk. That's why there is an impression of festive freshness and novelty.

Above features are highlighted by experts as the reference signs of this school. For this icon for example cypress board was brought from Greece. Cypress board is a distinctive mark of quality. It is the best basis for the icon, but because of the high cost and complexity to get it, such board could be affordded only by very few masters. But in Nevyansk masters didn’t economize on anything related to icons.

Good original state of preservation. Collectible, rare, unusual icon.

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Price: EUR 2200.-

Богородица Нечаянная Радость. 
Россия. Горный Урал. Невьянск. 18 век, около 1800 года.
Размер: 26.5 x 21.4 cm.

Доска кипарисовая монолитная , яичная темпера , золото сусальное с гравировкой , твореное золото , олифа.

High Resolution Images: fragments.
Цена: EUR 2200.-