Savior Pantocrator. From the Deesis (“Vysotsky”) row
Iconography: Savior Enthroned (Pantocrator)
Date: XIV century. 1387–1395.
Iconographic school/art center: Constantinople.
Origin: From the Church of the Conception of the Holy Virgin of the Vysotsky Monastery in Serpukhov. The church had received the icons from Constantinople in the 1380s-1390s.
Material: Wood, tempera
Dimensions: height 149 cm, width 94 cm
The half-length figure of the Savior is represented in a slight turn. With his raised hand he seems to be blessing by pointing to an open gospel he holds up with his left hand.
Inv. № 12723. © The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Bibliography:
Государственная Третьяковская Галерея. Каталог собрания. Древнерусское искусство X — начала XV века. Том I. №72.
General view