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In Russian churches, the nave is typically separated from the sanctuary by an iconostasis (Russian ikonostas, иконостас), or icon-screen, a wall of icons with double doors in the centre. Russians sometimes speak of an icon as having been "written", because in the Russian language (like Greek, but unlike English) the same word ( pisat ...
The Trinity (Russian: Троица, romanized: Troitsa, also called The Hospitality of Abraham) is an icon created by Russian painter Andrei Rublev in the early 15th century. [1] It is his most famous work [ 2 ] and the most famous of all Russian icons , [ 3 ] and it is regarded as one of the highest achievements of Russian art .
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The Icon Museum and Study Center is a non-profit art museum (formerly the Museum of Russian Icons) located in Clinton, Massachusetts, United States. The collection includes more than 1,000 Russian icons and related artifacts, making it one of the largest private collections of Russian icons outside of Russia and the largest in North America.
Dimensions. 59 cm × 57.2 cm (23 in × 22.5 in) Location. Cathedral of St. Sophia, Veliky Novgorod. Znа́meniye (Russian: Зна́мение) or Our Lady of the Sign is an icon in the orans style, dated at the first half of the 12th century. The icon was painted in medieval Novgorod. It is one of the most revered icons of the Russian Orthodox ...
Icons of Vladimir-Suzdal. Theotokos of Bogolyubovo. 1155. Bogolyubovo. Convent of Princesses, Vladimir. Our Lady of Saint Theodore. // Saint Paraskevi. (double-sided)
The Trinity by Ulanov. The Museum of Russian Icons was founded by a Rosgosstrakh manager Mikhail Abramov. It started as a private collection of Byzantine and Old Russian art that obtained the official status of public museum and became member of the IСOM (International Council of Museums). The museum's collection totals about 4,000 works ...
The Stroganov school (Russian: Строгановская школа) is a conventional name for the last major Russian icon -painting school, which thrived under the patronage of the fabulously rich Stroganov family of merchants in the late 16th and 17th centuries. The Stroganov school owes its name to frequent mentioning of the Stroganovs on ...