Hand-painted icon of Our Lady of Vladimir with hand-chiseled laughter in silver-plated copper and embedded corals, golden halo.

Icon Our Lady of Vladimir with riza and corals

AFI-IC-116011
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Hand-painted icon of Our Lady of Vladimir with hand-chiseled laughter in silver-plated copper and embedded corals, golden halo.

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Hand-painted icon of Our Lady of Vladimir with hand-chiseled riza in silver-plated copper and embedded corals, golden halo. These icons are the result of the work of a limited number of Polish artisan artists, we have been importing these beautiful icons for over 30 years, personally choosing every single piece. Hand-painted icon of Our Lady of Vladimir with hand-chiseled laughter in silver-plated copper and embedded corals, golden halo. These icons are the result of the work of a limited number of Polish artisan artists, we have been importing these beautiful icons for over 30 years, personally choosing every single piece. The Madonna of Vladimir, also known by the name of Our Lady of Tenderness, is certainly the most famous and the most beautiful of all the Mother of God of tenderness that differ from the others for the cheek-to-cheek proximity between the Madonna and baby Jesus. The Virgin of Vladimir is very different from Western madonnas, because she is penetrated by a different, severe and hieratic spirit: she shows a mother who affectionately hugs her son against her breast, but her face does not express joy: deep eyes, full of sadness , look straight at the viewer and have a mysterious and distressed expression. The Child's face also reflects gravity and concentration. Tradition has it that the Virgin of Vladimir, like numerous other icons, was painted by St. Luke. It would have been transferred, around 450, from Jerusalem to Constantinople, where it would have remained until the 12th century. Subsequently, after various vicissitudes, Jurij Dolgorukij, prince of Kiev, entrusted it to the monastery of the city of Vyšgorod. Later the same prince made a gift of the city and the monastery to his son, Prince Andrei. It was at this time that the icon began to work miracles and attracted many faithful. One day Prince Andrei, seeing the icon remain in the air, suspended in the middle of the church, understood that the Virgin had chosen another place, different from the one where she was. So the prince, following the people who were leaving for the North of Russia, decided to found a new principality in the city of Rostov and in the middle of the night he set off towards the north, taking with him the icon of Vyšgorod. Arriving near Vladimir, he saw that the horses refused to advance. He then had an officiation (moleben) celebrated in honor of the Mother of God and decided to have a church built in that place. Two years later, in 1160, the construction was already completed and the icon, richly decorated by Prince Andrei, was exhibited there for the veneration of the faithful. Since then it bears the name of that city. Like all the other icons of Mary, it bears the inscription "Mother of God". It is this title, the greatest ever given to a woman, which offers us the key to understanding the dignity of Mary, intimately linked to the mystery of the Word made man. The fascination that this icon exerts is not explained only by its artistic qualities or by its role in the history of Russia. Whoever observes her senses that these forms, bearers of an intense symbolic language, introduce into the reality of the mystery of God incarnate. Mary's enigmatic gaze seems to introduce us into the mystery of her divine motherhood: it is not that of a mother proud of an exceptional child. , but a gaze that radiates and directs towards us all the interior richness of the one who has contemplated her Son all her life. It is a look of faith, because she conceived God in her heart before she conceived God in her body. With one hand he clasps the Son to himself, while the other rises towards him, with a delicate and respectful gesture, as if he wanted to support him and at the same time direct our attention to him. In fact, although the Virgin occupies the central place of the icon, her presence is entirely for the Son: the inclination of the head, the slightly turned bust, the gesture of the hands around the Son, make her the place of the presence of the Word. incarnate. He is the Lord of all times, the glory of God. Everything in him is luminous. He is: "God from God, light from light, true God from true God." On her forehead and shoulders, the Mother carries a shining star, a symbol of her virginity before, during and after the birth of her Son, a virginity that penetrates her whole being: it is her total availability to the divine Spirit that makes her an instrument of God's creative power. Being a mother and being a virgin are no longer incompatible realities, but complement each other and are necessarily linked to each other. Mary is the mother of God, because she is a virgin. In the Virgin of Vladimir everything takes on a profound meaning from the Child: her face does not reflect the happiness of a child very close to her mother: her large eyes are full of anguish and transform the movement of tenderness in a movement of fear. Under the gaze of the Son, the Virgin's eyes also seem to be veiled with sadness, because the Mother knows the fate of the Son. She knows that he became a man to suffer the passion.

Material
wood
Painted icon sizes
28X32 cm
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