Annunciation
Iconography: Annunciation of the Most Holy Virgin
Date: XIX century. The mid-19th century.
Material: Wood, canvas, levkas, tempera
Dimensions: height 53 cm, width 46 cm
To the left is the figure of the Archangel Gabriel announcing the Good News to the Theotokos upon which descends a ray coming down from the Lord Sabaoth in a segment of heaven in the upper part of the icon.
Received from the Vuchetich All-Union Industrial Art Combine in 1981.
Inv. № РЖ – 1256. © 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. № 132. С. 97.
General view