icon;
painting
- Museum number
- 1998,1104.3
- Title
- Object: St Nicholas the Wonder-Worker
- Description
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Icon; painted; St Nicholas is depicted as a bearded half-length figure, wearing an ‘omophorion', and holding a gospel in his left hand and blessing with his right. On either side of him are two medallions containing Christ and the Virgin respectively presenting to the saint a gospel and an ‘omophorion' – a visual reference to the Miracle in Nicaea.
Inscriptions: in Church Slavonic on either side of the saint's halo: СBЯTЫИ НИКОЛАЕ ЧЮД[ОТВОРЕЦ] (St Nicholas the Wonder-Worker); in Greek flanking Christ's halo: ΙC ΧC (Jesus Christ); flanking the Virgin's halo: ΜΡ ΘΥ (Mother of God); in Christ's halo: O WN (He Who Is).
Egg tempera on wood.
- Production date
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19thC(late)
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20thC (restoration)
- Dimensions
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Height: 22.20 centimetres
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Thickness: 2 centimetres
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Width: 17.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For other icons with St Nicholas, see cat. nos 6, 22, 39, 53 and 65.
Published:
Cormack 2007, 132, no. 79
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Made from a single panel with ‘kovcheg’; originally, one inserted batten on the reverse, now missing; the gesso on the borders has been added later; the crosses, flesh tones and gilding have been restored in the 20th century over the original layers.
- Acquisition date
- 1998
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1998,1104.3
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: IC 81 (Icon Collection number)
