Transfiguration
Iconography: Transfiguration of Our Lord
Date: XIX century. The mid-19th century.
Material: Wood, canvas, levkas, tempera
Dimensions: height 40,5 cm, width 33,7 cm
The icon features the scene of the Transfiguration of Our Lord on Mount Tabor, in the presence of his closest disciples Peter, John and James. Christ is flanked by the Old Testament prophets Moses and Elijah. In the upper part of the icon, in a segment of heaven, is the Lord Sabaoth.
Received from the Vuchetich All-Union Industrial Art Combine in 1981.
Inv. № РЖ – 1263. © S.D.Erzi Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Mordovia
Bibliography:
Русское искусство XVIII - XX века: живопись, икона, культовая деревянная скульптура, графика, скульптура: каталог. Т.1 / МРМИИ им. С.Д. Эрьзи; [редкол.: Л.Н. Нарбекова и др.; авт. - сост.: Т.В. Елисеева, Е.А. Вишнякова]. Саранск, 2009. № 102. С. 78.
General view