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It is popularly attributed to the most celebrated icon-painter of Kievan Rus, St. Alypius from the Kiev Pechersk Monastery and is possibly modeled on a mosaic from the central conch of the Assumption Cathedral in the Pechersk Monastery. The Mother of God Enthroned belongs to the Panachranta type. Shortly before Napoleon's invasion in 1812, it ...
This category relates to religious Eastern Orthodox icons, icon painting, and icon painters. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
Bogorodica Trojeručica (Serbian Cyrillic: Богородица Тројеручица, Greek: Παναγία Τριχερούσα, Panagia Tricherousa, meaning "Three-handed Theotokos") or simply Trojeručica (Тројеручица, Three-handed) is an Eastern Orthodox wonderworking icon believed to have been produced in the 8th century in Palestine by John of Damascus.
Russian icon of the Holy Trinity The icon of St Nicolas carved in stone (between c. 12 and 15th centuries), at the Radomysl Castle, in Ukraine [2] Luke painting the Theotokos of Vladimir (16th century, Pskov) A rare ceramic icon depicting Saint Arethas (Byzantine, 10th century) Image of the Saviour Not Made by Hand: a traditional Orthodox ...
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.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, many Russian icons have been repatriated via direct purchase by Russian museums, private Russian collectors, or as was the case of Pope John Paul II giving an 18th-century copy of the famous Our Lady of Kazan icon to the Russian Orthodox Church, returned to Russia in good faith.
The Holy Trinity is an important subject of icons in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and has a rather different treatment from depictions in the Western Churches. There are two different types of Holy Trinity icons: the Old Testament Trinity and the New Testament Trinity (Троица Ветхозаветная and Троица ...