Nicholas the Wonderworker with saints on the margins
Iconography: Selected saints, Guardian Angel, Nicholas (lap)
Date: XIX century.
Iconographic school/art center: The last third of the 19th century.
Material: Wood, tempera
Dimensions: height 36 cm, width 31 cm
In the central part of the icon is the half-length figure of the saint. In his left hand he holds a Gospel, his left hand is raised in a benedictory gesture. On either side of him are the half-figures of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary. On the margins are the figures of the Archangel and the saints.
Received from the Vuchetich All-Union Industrial Art Combine in 1991.
Inv. № РЖ – 2111. © S.D.Erzi Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Mordovia
Bibliography:
Русское искусство XVIII - XX века: живопись, икона, культовая деревянная скульптура, графика, скульптура: каталог. Т.1 / МРМИИ им. С.Д. Эрьзи; [редкол.: Л.Н. Нарбекова и др.; авт. - сост.: Т.В. Елисеева, Е.А. Вишнякова]. Саранск, 2009. № 157. С. 113.