Zosima and Savvaty, Sts., with scenes from their lives
Iconography: Savvati of Solovki, St., Hagiography icons of the Venerable Zosima and Savvatiy of Solovki, Zosima of Solovki, the Venerable
Date: XVIII century. The middle of the 18th c.
Iconographic school/art center: North of Russia (Zaonezhye).
Origin: From a chapel of the Church of the Mother of God in the village of Kurgenitsy, Medvezhyegorsky district, the Republic of Karelia.
Material: Wood, tempera
Dimensions: height 72,5 cm, width 64,4 cm
The figures of Sts. Zosima and Savvaty in front of Our Lay of the Sign. They hold a model of the Solovetsky Monastery of the Transfiguration of Our Lord. The centerpiece is surrounded by twelve border scenes.
Inv. № И-460. © Republic of Karelia Museum of Fine Arts