Nicholas the Wonderworker
Iconography: Nicholas (lap)
Date: XVI century. The second quarter of the 16th c.
Icon-painter: Possibly painted by a middle-Russian master or most likely by a Murom iconographer, well aware of the Moscow iconography
Origin: From the Church of Cosmas and Damian in Murom.
Material: Wood, tempera
Dimensions: height 88 cm, width 65 cm
The distinctive feature of this work is a slightly turned face of the saint with a high forehead, narrow bottom part and small features, a silhouette of a figure broadening downwards, a cherry-brown phelonion with color highlights and the pattern of the omophorion, whose end constitutes a loop put on the saint’s left hand, under the Gospel code. In the upper part of the centerpiece are medallions with the half-figures of Christ and the Mother of God.
General view