Annunciation
Iconography: Annunciation of the Most Holy Virgin, Selected saints
Date: XIX century.
Iconographic school/art center: Russia
Material: Wood, levkas, tempera
Dimensions: height 34 cm, width 30 cm
In the centrepiece of the icon Archangel Gabriel is breaking the good news to the Mother of God. And above them in the heaven are the Father God sending a beam of light to the Mother of God, which is a symbol of the Immaculate Conception, and the archangel bending over him. On the raised flat borders of the icon panel are the saints.
© Omsk M.A. Vrubel Regional Museum of Fine Arts
General view