icon;
painting
- Museum number
- 1998,1105.5
- Title
- Object: The Mother of God Vladimirskaya
- Description
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Icon; painted; the half-length figure of the Mother of God is depicted in traditional pose gently holding the Christ child who embraces her. The Virgin wears a purple 'maphorion' with Bethlehem stars.
Egg tempera, gesso on wood.
- Production date
- 1850-1900
- Dimensions
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Height: 31 centimetres
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Thickness: 3 centimetres
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Width: 26 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- For the iconography see cat. no. 12 and cat. nos 35 and 41 for other examples. The painting is executed in the style of the 16th century upon the uncertain remains of earlier paint layers and gesso and was probably commissioned by an Old Believer.
Published:
Cormack 2007, 133, no. 84
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Made from a single panel with ‘kovcheg’; two inserted battens on the reverse; the paint layer on the background has been scraped down to the gesso and there are later additions of gesso on the side borders.
- Acquisition date
- 1998
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1998,1105.5
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: IC 86 (Icon Collection number)
