Nicholas, St.
Iconography: Nicholas (lap)
Date: XV century.
Iconographic school/art center: North of Russia
Origin: From the Church of St. Nicholas in the village of Vegoruks, Medvezhygorsk district, the Republic of Karelia.
Material: Wood, tempera
Dimensions: height 55 cm, width 36, 5 cm
The icon is painted in a very expressive manner making the saint’s image look particularly ascetic. Especially expressive is the contrast of the unfleshly and weakly modeled torsos and the energetically moulded head. Smoothly bent, as though boneless, fingers are reminiscent of Pskovian icons. This icon could be attributed to imported monuments but for its rarest brick-colored background and the lack of kovcheg in the icon board. The unique details of the icon is the en face full-length image of the Mother of God.
Inv. № И-281. © Republic of Karelia Museum of Fine Arts
Bibliography: СD ROM «Иконопись Карелии». Музей изобразительных искусств Республики Карелия. 2002
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