Nicholas the Wonderworker
Iconography: Nicholas (lap)
Date: XVI century. The third quarter of the 16th c.
Origin: From the Church of St. Nicholas of Zaryadsk.
Material: Wood, tempera
Dimensions: height 99 cm, width 80 cm
The icons belongs to the traditional half-length image of St. Nicholas with his right hand raised in blessing and a closed Gospel book in his right. The saint is represented wearing a colored phelonion without crosses. The distinctive features of this iconographic variant is a depiction of the saint’s left hand as if it is wrapped with omophorion, a hefty square-built figure with a broad face and curly beard.
Deposited in the Museum on January 15, 1930. From 1964 to 2004 was kept at the Andrei Rublyov Museum, restored in 2001-2003 at Inter-regional Scientific Restoration Art Department by G.S.Batkhel.
General view