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MOTHER OF GOD "JOY TO ALL WHO GRIEVE" (WITH COINS)
MOTHER OF GOD "JOY TO ALL WHO GRIEVE" (WITH COINS)
54.81
Unknown
1888-1917
The Mother of God stands full length against a wedgewood blue sky, the ground beneath her cinnamon pink and two tall palm fronds framing her. She wears a brown maphorion with yellow border over a...
ST. PARASKEVA PIATNITSA
ST. PARASKEVA PIATNITSA
54.82
Unknown
1875-1900
The humblest of all icons was the small, quickly painted image produced as a souvenir of a pilgrimage to a famous monastery or to invoke the protection of a particular saint. Although...
ST. VARLAAM KHUTINSKY
ST. VARLAAM KHUTINSKY
54.83
Unknown
1800-1900
The Novgorod miracleworker St. Varlaam stands to the right on a brown hillock overlooking the Volkhova river and the Transfiguration monastery which he founded in the 12th century at Khutin near...
TRIPTYCH KIOT
TRIPTYCH KIOT
54.84.1
Unknown
Early 18th c.
Designed as a case to house a removable icon, the triptych now contains a roughly carved and painted wooden cross set in a gable-shaped panel whose original gilding has been almost effaced. A...
WOODEN CROSS AND TRIPTYCH KIOT
WOODEN CROSS AND TRIPTYCH KIOT
54.84.2
Unknown
19th c.
The roughly carved and painted wooden cross is set in a gable shaped panel whose original gilding has been almost effaced. A sliding lid on the back of the cross opens to reveal a space containing...
KAZAN MOTHER OF GOD
KAZAN MOTHER OF GOD
54.85
Unknown (Painter)
1767-1799
The Kazan Mother of God is shown bust length head inclined to the right, the Child three quarter length standing face forward right arm extended, hand in gesture of blessing. She wears a warm...
ST. CATHERINE
ST. CATHERINE
54.86
Unknown
19th c.
The holy great martyr St. Catherine stands on a rocky promentory against a ground of olive green and dark brown. She holds an eight-pointed martyr's cross in her right hand and from her left is...
DIESIS
DIESIS
54.87
Unknown (Painter)
16th c.-19th c.
Small rectangular panel with wide border. Central portion is set much deeper into the panel. In the center of the icon are three bust-length figures: Christ Pantoctator in the center, Mother of...
ST. ALEXIS
ST. ALEXIS
54.88
Unknown
Late 16th c.-Early 17th c.
Small rectangular dome-shaped panel. In the center figure of St. Alexis is shown full-length in 3/4 view. He is holding a book in his left hand. His right hand is raised in the gesture of prayer....
ST. CYRIL
ST. CYRIL
54.89
Unknown
Late 16th c.-Early 17th c.
Small rectangular dome-shaped panel with elevated borders. The central part depicts full length 3/4 view figure of St. Cyril. In his left hand draped in veil he holds a casket or reliquary. His...
ST. BASIL THE GREAT, ST. GREGORY BOGOSLOV, AND ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTUM
ST. BASIL THE GREAT, ST. GREGORY BOGOSLOV, AND ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTUM
54.9
Unknown
19th c.
This large icon depicts the Council of the three great church teachers, St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory Bogoslov, and St. John the Theologian, whose joint feastday of January 29 was instituted by...
PORTRAIT OF GRAND DUCHESS CATHERINE (FUTURE EMPRESS CATHERINE II)
PORTRAIT OF GRAND DUCHESS CATHERINE (FUTURE EMPRESS CATHERINE II)
55.1
Georg Christoph Grooth (Artist)
1748
Framed in black and labeled in Russian and Latin "Catherine, Grand Duchess of Russia."