John the Baptist
Iconography: John the Forerunner, prophet and baptist, John the Baptist - the Angel of the desert
Date: XIX century.
Iconographic school/art center: The first half of the 19th century.
Material: Wood, canvas, levkas, tempera
Dimensions: height 48,7 cm, width 40,3 cm
A full-length icon of John the Baptist with a scroll and a chalice in his hands. In the chalice lies the Infant Christ, to which points the saint.
Received from the Vuchetich All-Union Industrial Art Combine in 1985.
Inv. № РЖ – 1692. © S.D.Erzi Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Mordovia
Bibliography:
Русское искусство XVIII - XX века: живопись, икона, культовая деревянная скульптура, графика, скульптура: каталог. Т.1 / МРМИИ им. С.Д. Эрьзи; [редкол.: Л.Н. Нарбекова и др.; авт. - сост.: Т.В. Елисеева, Е.А. Вишнякова]. Саранск, 2009. № 100. С. 77.
General view