Holy Virgin Life-giving Spring
Iconography: Holy Virgin Life-giving Spring
Date: XVIII century. 1715
Icon-painter: Tikhon Gorinsky
Origin: From the Annunciation Convent (?) in Murom.
Material: Wood, tempera
Dimensions: height 40,5 cm, width 29 cm
The icon belongs to a rarely encountered concise iconographic variant. The icon portrays the Mother of God with the Child looking like “sunk” into a bowl resting on a trapezoidal pedestal reminiscent of a crescent collar.
Deposited in the Museum in 1970. Restored in 1986 at the Grabar Restoration Center by N.A.Fedosova.
General view