Samonas, Blaise, Gurias and Aviv, the holy martyrs

Iconography:  Blaise of Sebastia, St., Gurias of Edessa, the Martyr, Samonas of Edessa, the Martyr, Aviv of Edessa, the Martyr

Date: XIX century. Late 19th century.

Origin: Received by the museum in the 1970s from a scientific expedition around the Ivanovo region.

Material: Wood, levkas, tempera, gold, chasing

Dimensions:  height 27 cm, width 22 cm

The icon shows full-length figures of Sts. Samonas, Gurias, Aviv and Blaise. Gurias and Samon are dressed in Byzantine tunics and cloaks; Aviv is wearing a sticharion, he holds a reliquary in his right hand and a censer in his left; Blaise is dressed in clerical clothes holding a closed Gospel book. The icon is executed in accordance with the Palekh ancient art imitation style of the late 19th – late 20th centuries


Инв. ГМПИ 3190. ДИ-624-И. © The State Museum of Palekh Art


Bibliography:

1. Палехская школа 1923-1950. Лаковые миниатюры иконописцев. Мюнхен, 2011. № 14. С. 43.

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