Akathist to Jesus the Sweetest (icon frame)
Iconography: Akathist to Jesus the Sweetest
Date: XVIII century. 1774
Origin: From the Church of St. Basil the Great in the village of Maloye Yuryevo, the Murom uezd.
Material: Wood, tempera
Dimensions: height 197 cm, width 187 cm
A series of illustrations consisting of 24 border scenes corresponding to 12 kondaks and 12 ikoses of the Akathist to Jesus the Sweetest.
Border scenes:
1. Kondak 1. «Взбранный воеводе и Господи…» (The Resurrection – the Descent into Hell)
2. Ikos 1. «Ангелов Творче и Господи сил…» Christ heals the deaf-mute
3. Kondak 2. «Видя вдовицу зельне плачущую…» (The Raising of the widow's son)
4. Christ with Sts. Philip and Nathaniel (?)
5. The Descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles
6. Christ preaches to publicans and sinners
7. The Salvation of the drowning Peter
8. The Healing of the blind
9. Christ is shown standing on the coffin, before him is a bowl with the blood of Christ flowing from His wounds; in the background is a cross and the instruments of the Passion
10. The Entry into Jerusalem
11. Christ with the six Apostles
12. Christ with the prophets before inferno
13. The Bearing of the Cross
14. The Appearance of Christ to the Apostles
15. Christ and the Angels
16. Christ trampling on the serpent
17. The Ascension
18. Christ and the Pharisees
19. The Lamentation of Christ
20. Christ heals the leprous
21. The healing of woman possessed by Demon
22. The Conversion of Saul
23. The Contrition of St. Peter
24. The Final Judgment
Deposited in the Museum on July 27, 1942. Restored in 1994-2002 at the Grabar Restoration Center by T.A.Milova.
General view