Intercession of the Mother of God
Iconography: Intercession of the Holy Virgin
Date: XIX century. The second half of the 19th century.
Material: Wood, levkas, tempera
Dimensions: height 35,5 cm, width 29,8 cm
The scene is set against the Blachernae Temple. The Mother of God is represented in a three-quarter turn to Christ standing on the clouds. She holds an omophorion and an unfolded scroll. Chirst is depicted in a segment of heaven, in his right hand he is blessing and in his left holds an unfolded scroll. Behind the figure of the Theotokos, in five rows, are angels, apostles and saints. In the bottom part of the icon, against the closed Holy Gates at the pulpit is the figure of deacon Romanus the Melodist holding an unfolded scroll. To his right Andrew the Fool of Christ is pointing up to the image of the Theotokos to his disciple Epithany. To the left is a group of worshippers, among which are generalized images of the Emperor and Patriarch. On the margins are the figures of a guardian-angel and the saint.
Received from the Vuchetich All-Union Industrial Art Combine in 1985.
Inv. № РЖ – 1667. © 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. № 136. С. 100.
General view