O, Mother, all Glorified

Iconography:  Virgin “O Mother All-Glorified”

Date: XIX century. The first third of the 19th century(?).

Material: Wood, levkas, tempera

Dimensions:  height 99 cm, width 76 cm

The figure of the Mother of God with the Infant Christ upon Her hands. On the edge of an omophorion is an inscription carrying the Akathist of the Theotokos

Received from the Vuchetich All-Union Industrial Art Combine in 1985.

Inv. № РЖ –1695. © 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. № 128. С. 94.

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