Our Lady of the Sign, St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. A portable double-sided icon
Iconography: Our Lady of the Sign
Date: XVII century. Mid/third-quarter of the 17th c.
Iconographic school/art center: Murom
Origin: From the Church of St. Nicholas of Zaryads in Murom.
Material: Wood, tempera
Dimensions: height 45,5 cm, width 40 cm
The Mother of God is portrayed from the waist down, Her figure has elongated proportions, with omophorion going apart on the breast thus forming a low cut. A half-length image of Nicholas the Wonderworker on the back belongs to a very widespread iconographic variant of the saint’s image: he is shown wearing clerical clothes (phelonion and omophorion), blessing with his right hand and supports with his right through the omophorion a Gospel book in a precious casing.
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