Our Lady of the Sign
Icons
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Waist-length representation of Our Lady. Her hands are raised up in prayer. She is depicted with the Child Jesus represented within a round aureole upon her breast. -
Our Lady of the Sign with the Selected Saints (St. Barlaam of Khoutyn, St. John the “Almoner”, St. Parasceva, surnamed “Friday” and St. Anastasia). -
The half-length figure of the Mother of God raising hands in a devotional gesture and the image of the Divine Infant on the breast. -
The half-length figure of the Mother of God raising her hands in a devotional gesture and the image of the Divine Child on Her breast. -
The half-length figure of the Holy Virgin with the Savior Emmanuel on the breast. -
In the center is the figure of Our Lady of the Sign, flanked by the standing saints. -
The icon portrays the Mother of God in omophorion forming a fold on her breast, emphasized by a pink band on the edge. Such folds are encountered in the replicas of the miraculous icon. Inside this fold is a medallion with the half-figure of the blessing Infant Christ dressed in unusually light color clothes – a light ochrous chiton and a pink himation. A bright scarlet background of the medallion is decorated with “cloudy” ornamentation. The color palette is moderate and exquisite. The soft roundish faces of Christ and the Mother of God are painted over a brown sankir layer with transparent honey shading ochre and finest brushes making an impression of a single color layer seemingly luminous from the inside -
Our Lady of the Sign, St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. A portable double-sided icon
The Mother of God is portrayed from the waist down, Her figure has elongated proportions, with omophorion going apart on the breast thus forming a low cut. A half-length image of Nicholas the Wonderworker on the back belongs to a very widespread iconographic variant of the saint’s image: he is shown wearing clerical clothes (phelonion and omophorion), blessing with his right hand and supports with his right through the omophorion a Gospel book in a precious casing. -
The Mother of God is represented against an ochre background, wearing brown omophorion with golden edging decorated with stones. On Her chest is a golden medallion with an image of Christ Emmanuel. On the left border are saint princes Constantine, Michael and Feodor dressed in princely clothes; on the right border is prince Peter and princess Fevronia in clerical clothes. All of them are not shown in frontal position, but turned to the centerpiece, in prayer to the Mother of God. -
Our Lady with the arms raised in prayer is depicted waist-length. Christ-Emmanuel is depicted in the medallion on Her bosom. -
The two-tier icon portraying God the Father seated on the Heavenly throne as the Ancient of Days, with an eight-pointed halo above the head. On his lap sits Christ Emmanuel, inside a circle is a pigeon symbolizing the Holy Spirit. This iconography belongs to the iconographic type of “Paternity”. -
The icon is composed of 14 border scenes featuring the Mother of God and the saints. -
In the centre of the icon is the waist-length depiction of the Mother of God, Her hands spread apart. On Her chest is a half-figure of Christ Emmanuel Whose hands are raised in a two hand blessing of archiereus. Above Mary’s hands are shown the seraph and the cherub.
