Saint Anastasia of Rome

Iconography:  Anastasia the Roman, the Grand Martyress

Date: XVI century.

Iconographic school/art center:  Pskov icon-painting school

Origin: From the church of Nicholas the Wonderworker of the village Zayanye of Strugokrasnensky district in the Pskov region

Material: Wood, canvas, levkas, tempera

Dimensions:  height 104 cm, width 77 cm

Waist-length depiction of Anastasia of Rome dressed in the green omophorion holding a cross in her right hand. In the upper par of the icon are shown the depictions of the nine selected saints. They form so-called Deesis row with the figure of saint Nicholas the Wonderworker in the centre. Priest-martyr Blasius of Sebasta, saint Nicephorus, the patriarch of Constantinople, great martyrs George and Theodor (Tiron?), martyrs Florus and Isidore of Chios, great martyrs Parasceva and Catherine. 


Inv. №4361. © Pskov State United Historical, Architectural and Fine Arts Museum-Reserve

Bibliography: Васильева О.А. Иконы Пскова. М., 2006. № 145. С. 460.


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