Nicholas the Wonderworker

Iconography:  Nicholas (lap)

Date: XVI century. The third quarter of the 16th c.

Origin: From the Church of St. Nicholas of Zaryadsk.

Material: Wood, tempera

Dimensions:  height 99 cm, width 80 cm

The icons belongs to the traditional half-length image of St. Nicholas with his right hand raised in blessing and a closed Gospel book in his right. The saint is represented wearing a colored phelonion without crosses. The distinctive features of this iconographic variant is a depiction of the saint’s left hand as if it is wrapped with omophorion, a hefty square-built figure with a broad face and curly beard. 


Deposited in the Museum on January 15, 1930. From 1964 to 2004 was kept at the Andrei Rublyov Museum, restored in 2001-2003 at Inter-regional Scientific Restoration Art Department by G.S.Batkhel. 

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