Necetas, St. the warrior

Iconography:  Necetas (Nikita), Great Martyr

Date: XVI century. 1593

Iconographic school/art center:  Stroganov icon-painting school

Icon-painter: Chirin, Prokopy

Origin: From the Annunciation Cathedral in Solvychegodsk.

Material: Wood, tempera

Dimensions:  height 29 cm, width 22,5 cm

Great martyr Necetas (Nikita), the patronage saint of the icon owner Nikita Grigoryevich Stroganov, is portrayed facing the Mother of God with the Child.

Inv. № Др.-1190. © The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Bibliography:

Иконопись из собрания Третьяковской галереи. М., 2008. С. 150.

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