Icon Christ Pantocrator Russia
AFI-IC-11609
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€340.00
Icon Christ Pantocrator hand painted in Russia.
Christ Pantocrator hand painted on wooden panel, size 13X16 cm.
Icon Christ Pantocrator hand painted in Russia, is one of the main themes of Orthodox art that comes from the first Byzantine Empire. The oldest known representations are the frescoes of the 4th and 5th centuries. The motif is known in three variants: half-length, enthroned, standing. It is always represented frontally, with the nimbus of the cross, with the blessing right hand and the Gospel in the left hand, or in the first representations the scroll. The inscription on the book should read : "I am the light of the world"
- Material
- wood