Caption

Icon: Virgin Mary with the Youthful Christ. The icon depicts the Virgin Mary in a frontal view, knee-deep, holding the youthful Christ seated on a decorative cushion. He holds an unrolled scroll in his left hand and blesses with his right hand. The icon is linear with highly contrasting colors. Probably created in a Greek provincial workshop, perhaps from a monastic center in northern Greece. 17th–18th century, Greece. Icon; height 42.0 cm, width 35.0 cm., A painted icon showing a seated woman holding a child on her lap against a gold background; the woman wears a red head covering with green inner lining and a red outer robe with darker red folds and gold trim, and a green garment is visible beneath; the child is dressed in brownish-gold drapery and sits on a red cushion with gold and green edging and tassels; both figures have halos outlined with dotted patterns; the woman's face is pale with dark eyes and a solemn expression, and the child's face is similarly pale with short brown hair; visible colors include gold, red, green, blue, brown, and pale skin tones.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A16_225

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Rights managed

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86.8Mb (5.4Mb) / 16.9in x 20.0in / 5056 x 6000 (300dpi)

Keywords

Icon Virgin Mary Youthful Christ icon depicts frontal view knee-deep holding youthful Christ seated decorative cushion holds unrolled scroll left hand blesses right hand icon linear highly contrasting colors created Greek provincial workshop perhaps monastic center northern Greece 17th–18th century Greece height 42.0 cm width 35.0 cm painted icon showing seated woman holding child lap gold background woman wears red head covering green inner lining red outer robe darker red folds gold trim green garment visible beneath dressed brownish-gold drapery sits red cushion gold green edging tassels figures halos outlined dotted patterns woman's face pale dark eyes solemn expression child's face similarly pale short brown hair visible colors include green blue pale skin tones.