Savior Enthroned (Pantocrator)

Iconography:  Savior Enthroned (Pantocrator)

Date: XIV century. The end of the 14th c.

Iconographic school/art center:  Novgorod school

Origin: From the Church of Theodor Stratelates-upon-Ruchei, Novgorod

Material: Wood, tempera

Dimensions:  height 128 cm, width 79,5 cm

A waist-length figure of Jesus Christ, his right hand is blessing, and his left hand is holding a Gospel book pressed to His chest. One edge of the dark-blue hymation hangs down the right shoulder of the Savior, leaving open the brown chiton with a broad ochreous clavus.

Inv. № 2851. © Novgorod State United Museum

Bibliography:

Иконы Великого Новгорода XI- начала XVI веков. Авторы проекта Л.В. Нерсесян и С.В.Обух. М. Северный паломник. 2008. №16.


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