Our Lady Hodegetria of Smolensk

Iconography:  Our Lady of Smolensk

Date: XVI century. The early 16th century.

Iconographic school/art center:  The Novgorod school, the northern province.

Origin: From the Chapel of the Our Lady of Smolensk in the village of Kinerma, Pryazhinsky district, the Republic of Karelia.

Material: Wood, tempera

Dimensions:  height 55,5 cm, width 41 cm

The figure of the Holy Virgin with the Child. The icon belongs to the most venerated Karelian sanctities.

Inv. № И-1565. © Republic of Karelia Museum of Fine Arts

Bibliography: СD ROM «Иконопись Карелии». Музей изобразительных искусств Республики Карелия. 2002

  • General view
  • The Mother of God with the Child
  • The face of the Mother of God
  • Jesus Christ. A fragment