Mid-Pentecost

Iconography:  Mid-Pentecost (The twelve year old Christ talking with the Pharisees in the Temple of Jerusalem)

Date: XVI century.

Iconographic school/art center:  Pskov icon-painting school

Origin: From the church of Nicholas the Wonderworker in Pskov

Material: Wood, canvas, levkas, tempera

Dimensions:  height 94 cm, width 69 cm

The centre of the composition shows the figure of adolescent Christ in a three quarter turn facing the Pharisees and the scribes surrounding Him.

Inv. №1415. © Pskov State United Historical, Architectural and Fine Arts Museum-Reserve 

Bibliography: Васильева О.А. Иконы Пскова. М., 2006. № 42. С. 166.

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