Главное меню
Наши коллекции
3640n: "Mother of God of Kazan"
Image information
"Mother of God of Kazan."
High Resolution Images: fragments.
Moscow. Around 1890.
Size: 27,0 x 22,5 x 2,9 cm.
Technique & Material: Board, gesso, mixed painting, drying oil.
Salary (oklad): Bronze, casting, stamping, engraving. A thick layer of metal, high relief of the clothe.
Description: Massive halos (nimbuses) were made separately, and then were attached to the salary (oklad) - it was making the work more expensive but looks more impressive and more luxurious.
Professional skills of the highest class in the execution of the icon: As "personal painting" (ie carnation - exposed parts of the body) in a mixed manner - by tempera and varnishes, and luxury garb of the icon - salary (oklad), which is made in the style of Russian art nouveau (Russian new-art).
Perfect and original state of preservation. The icon did not even require the clearing of darkened varnish.
History of the plot: " According to the records of the contemporary Patriarch Hermogenes (at the time the priest of the Gostinodvorskaya church of Kazan - Yermolay), after the fire in Kazan in 1579, which has destroyed part of the city, the Mother of God appeared in the dream of a nine-year old Matrona, and ordered to dig out her icon from the ashes.The icon was indeed found in the specified location at a depth of one meter.The appearance day of the Kazan Icon - July 8, according to the Julian calendar - in our days the general church festival in the Russian Church. At the place where was the appearance of the icon, was built nunnery of the Mother of God, and the first nun became the Matron, who has adopted the name - Mavra. Iconographic the icon of Mother of God of Kazan is usually referred to an abbreviated version of the Hodegetria. The Mother of God is depicted in the typical garb, with a slight inclination of the head of the Child. The infant Christ is presented strictly full-face, the figure is limited to the waist,only the right hand with the blessing gesture is visible. The Mother of God of Kazan, of our research, - one of the most revered and most reproducible icon of all icons in Russia."
The icon is of great historical - artistic and antique - collectible value. For more information, please inquire.
Price: EUR 1500.-
Казанская Богородица.
Москва. Около 1890 г.
Размер:27,0 х22,5 х2,9 см
Доска,левкас,смешанная живопись,олифа.
Оклад : Бронза , литье, чеканка,гравировка. Толстый слой металла ,высокий рельеф одежд .
Высокое качество: фрагменты.
Цена: EUR 1500.-
- Category: Christmas Collection 2022
- Category: Ancient Copper-Cast Icons
- Category: Ancient Copper-Cast Crosses
- Category: General Collection