Our Lady of Vladimir
Iconography: Vladimir icon of the Mother of God
Date: XVII century. 1612
Origin: From the Church of the Elevation of the Cross in Murom.
Material: Wood, tempera
Dimensions: height 86 cm, width 60 cm
The iconographic version is derived from the icon known as Our Lady of Vladimir – a Byzantine icon of the first third of the 12th century (currently kept in Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery), attributed in later legends to the Evangelist Luke. The Murom icon is derived from a composition that had appeared after the repainting of Our Lady of Vladimir in 1514: the left hand is raised high above the right, on the neck, under omophorion, peers out the left hand of the Infant Christ. The Mother of God’s head is covered with a diadem, decorated with pearls and precious stones. This imitation of the precious setting of the Mother of God’s icon obviously emphasized the fact that the Murom icon is the exact iconographic variant of the original miraculous icon. The bottom border carried an inscription “Лета 7122 году марта 9 день сия икона Владимирския Божией матери к Воздвижении честного креста Господня писана Рославовым”.
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