Nicholas the Wonderworker

Iconography:  Nicholas of Zaraysk, St., Hagiographic cycle Nicholas

Date: XVI century.

Iconographic school/art center:  Novgorod school

Origin: According to unofficial information, the icon was formerly the property of an Old-Believer community in Moscow.

Material: Wood, levkas, tempera

Dimensions:  height 150 cm, width 112 cm

An icon of Nicholas the Wonderworker with 20 scenes from his life and the mullion. The mullion depicts a full-length image of Nicholas the Wonderworker.

Inv. № 187. © The Andrey Rublyov Museum of Medieval Russian Culture and Art

Bibliography:

Музей древнерусского искусства имени Андрея Рублева. А.А.Салтыков. Ленинград.1989. Каталог. 117-118

  • General view
  • Mullion
  • Mullion. Face
  • Mullion. Fragment
  • Border panel 1. The Nativity of Nicolas the Wonderworker
  • Border panel 02. St. Nicholas in a monastic school
  • Border panel 03. St. Nicholas consecrated as a deacon
  • Border panel 04. St. Nicholas consecrated as a presbyter
  • Border panel 05. St. Nicholas consecrated as a presbyter
  • Border panel 06. St. Nicholas сuts the tree and drives the demons out of the well
  • Border panel 07. St. Nicholas is heals of the demon-possessed
  • Border panel 08. St. Nicholas appears to Constantine in a dream
  • Border panel 09. St. Nicholas appears before the three generals in prison
  • Border panel 10. St. Nicholas rescues the three generals from execution
  • Border panel 11. St. Nicholas saves Basil, the son of Agricos
  • Border panel 12. St. Nicholas saves Basil, the son of Agricos
  • Border panel 13. The miracle with a carpet
  • Border panel 14. The miracle with a carpet
  • Border panel 15. The miracle with the three friends
  • Border panel 16. The miracle with the three friends
  • Border panel 17. The miracle with the three friends
  • Border panel 18. St. Nicholas rescues a ship at sea
  • Border panel 19. The entombment of St. Nicholas
  • Border panel 20. The transfer of St. Nicholas’s relics from Myra of Lycia to Bari