Venerable Dimitry of Prilutsk, with scenes from his life
Iconography: Dimitri of Priluki, the Venerable, Life Cycles of the Venerable Dimitri of Priluki
Date: XVI century. C.a. 1503
Iconographic school/art center: Moscow school
Icon-painter: Dionisius
Origin: From Spaso-Prilutsky monastery near Vologda.
Material: Wood, canvas, levkas, tempera
Dimensions: height 139 cm, width 105 cm
The center of the icon represents the frontal half-length figure of blessed Dimitry wearing traditional monk clothes – a robe, the paramand and a mantle with koukoulon. His right hand is raised in blessing, with his left hand he holds a folded scoll.
Inv. NO ВОКМ 1593 © Vologda State Museum of History, Architecture and Art
General view
Nicolas the Wonderwokere
The face of the saint's
St. Nicholas consecrated deacon
The founding of St. Nicholas monastery in Pereslavl-Zalessky
Meeting with venerable Sergius of Radonezh
Meeting with Great Prince Dimitry of Don
St. Dimitry leaves Avnega
10. St. Dimitry founds Spaso-Prilutsky and give him their land for the monastery)
The prophesy about the death of Great Prince Dimitry of Don
St. Dimitry is blessed to become abbot
St. Dimitry is blessed to become abbot
The dormition of St. Dimitry
The entombment of St. Dimitry
16. The miracle of Vyatka citizens (angel strikes Vyatka citizens attempting to loot the saint’s tomb in Vologda)
The healing of the devil-obsessed Simeon
18. The miracle of the church (the apparition of St. Dimitry carrying logs for the construction of a church)
The healing of the dumb John