Nicholas the Wonderworker.

Iconography:  Nicholas (lap)

Date: XV century.

Iconographic school/art center:  Pskov icon-painting school

Origin: From the Nikolsky cathedral in the town Porkhov

Material: Wood, levkas, tempera

Dimensions:  height 92 cm, width 74,5 cm

Waist-length depiction of the blessing saint Nicholas with the closed Gospel book. The saint is represented in the wine-colored phelonion and the white omophorion with the black crosses on the shoulders. In his left hand the saint holds the Gospel book with the red edge.

Inv. № 3866. © Pskov State United Historical, Architectural and Fine Arts Museum-Reserve

Bibliography: Васильева О.А. Иконы Пскова. М., 2006. № 13. С. 64.

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