Our Lady “the Virgin Mother”
Iconography: Our Lady "the Virgin Mother"
Date: XVIII century. Late 18th – first quarter of the 19th century
Origin: From the church commemorating saint Nicholas the Wonderworker of the Sukhachskiy pogost, Belozerskiy district, Novgorodskaya region (now – the village of Shoborovo, Kaduyskiy district, Vologodskaya region).
Material: Wood, tempera
Dimensions: height 123 cm, width 37,5 cm
The Mother of God is depicted full-length with Child Jesus on Her left hand.
Was deposited in 1935.
Restoration: the Vologda branch of the All-Russian Art Scientific and Restoration Center named after I.E. Grabar, 1995, restorer – Rybakov G.A.
Inv. №995/4. © Cherepovets Museum Association.
Bibliography: Куликова О.В. Древние лики Русского Севера. Из музейного собрания икон XIV-XIX веков города Череповца. М., 2009. Кат. № 96 (Илл. 97).
General view
Mother of God with the Divine Child. A fragment
The face of the Mother of God
Child Jesus
A fragment