SAINT BASIL
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
This icon as well as the icon of St Chrysostom (54.57) was once part of a royal door. A full length figure of St. Basil stands in three-quarter view facing to the right. He has a long club-shaped beard and wears the vestments of a bishop: a felon' (chasuble) with a pattern of black crosses on a white ground and a white omophor (stole) with black crosses. He gestures with his right hand towards the pearle-studded book of Gospels.
- Object name:
- SAINT BASIL
- Made from:
- Tempera on wood
- Made in:
- Russia
- Date made:
- 16th c.
- Size:
- 121.9 × 40.6 cm (48 × 16 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 54.56
- Class:
- ICON
- Signature marks:
- INSCRIPTION; LABEL on top: St. Basil in Cyrillic; old label of Tretyakov Gallery no. 1543
- Credit line:
- Gift of Madame Augusto Rosso, 1968