Virgin Eleousa of Kykkos
Iconography: Kykkos Icon of the Mother of God
Date: XVII century. 1668
Iconographic school/art center: Kremlin Armory School of icon-painters
Icon-painter: Ushakov, Simon (Pimen) Fedorovich
Origin: From the sovereign row of the main iconostasis in the Church of St. Gregory Neocaesarea at Bolshaya Polyanka Street in Moscow.
Material: Wood, tempera
Dimensions: height 130 cm, width 76 cm
The icon represents itself one of the copies of the ancient wonderworking icon of the Mother of God from Cyprus that had been located in a monastery on Mount Kykkos. The inscription on the icon Virgin Eleousa of Kykkos is written in Greek.
Inv. № 28691. © The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
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