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Holy Virgin Life-giving Spring

Iconography:  Holy Virgin Life-giving Spring

Date: XVIII century. 1703

Icon-painter: Ulanov, Kirill (Cornelius) Ivanov

Origin: From the sovereign row of the iconostasis in the Church of Michal the Archangel in the village of Bronnichi (now the city of Bronnitsy, the Moscow Region).

Material: Wood, levkas, tempera

Dimensions:  height 175 cm, width 116 cm

The Mother of God with the Child is shown in the finial as a chalice placed under the vaulted nave. The Holy Virgin is flanked by the angels standing on the clouds. Around a quatrefoil water-pool stand the sufferers drinking water from the spring.

Inv. № 202. © The Andrey Rublyov Museum of Medieval Russian Culture and Art


  • General view
  • Mullion
  • The Holy Virgin with the Child
  • The Holy Virgin’s face
  • A standing angel to the left
  • A standing angel to the right
  • A sufferer near the spring
  • The sufferers drinking water from the spring
  • The sufferers drinking water from the spring
  • 8The sufferers drinking water from the spring
  • The sufferers drinking water from the spring
  • A scene as seen through the church window
  • The sufferers drinking water from the spring
  • The sufferers drinking water from the spring
  • The sufferers drinking water from the spring
  • The Child