Offered by Antichità Castelbarco
Antique Russian icon ''Mother of God of Deesis''
Central Russia - 19th century
71 x 40 cm.
Egg tempera on wooden panel
Antique Russian icon with the Mother of God, portrayed full-length and turned three-quarters to the right, with one hand raised on her breast in sign of prayer and the other holding an open scroll.
The particular depiction, with the Virgin alone without the Child, represents a variant of the particular Marian iconography known as Aghiosoritissa (Greek for 'Intercessor'), first widespread in Byzantine art and then in all European countries in the medieval period.
In particular, our icon must have originally been part of a more complex composition, commonly referred to as 'the Deesis', a type of representation that features the figure of the Blessing Christ in the centre, with the Virgin Mary on the left and St John the Baptist on the right, both in the act of prayer with the function of interceding for the sins of the faithful.
Our icon therefore sees Mary, as mentioned, facing to her right where ideally Christ would have been enthroned.
The proposed icon is of excellent quality and comes from central Russia, made in the 19th century. Both the format and the large size make it very rare and of great interest to the Russian art collectors' market.
Delevery information :
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