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Icon: Christ the Savior. Old Believer Popovtsy workshop, Russian workshop. Subject: Jesus Christ. Medium/type: icon. Description: The face of Christ is depicted in the kovcheg with a brown complexion brightened by white tones on the forehead, eyelids, under the eyes, chin, and around the mouth. Eyes large; nose long and straight; hair parted in the middle, falling in circular locks on the shoulders; beard small and bipartite. Christ wears a red chiton with a gold border decorated with a delicate plant ornament, and a malachite himation with an ornament. Around the head is a cruciform halo; the letters on the arms of the cross are placed in double overlapping rhombuses—gold and red. The background of the kovcheg is gilded. Style linear, with tendencies toward decorativeness and stylization. Date: 2nd half of the 19th century. Place: Western Russia . Dimensions: height 31 cm, width 25.5 cm. Inscriptions: present. Iconography: star, halo., A painted panel showing a frontal portrait of a person with long dark brown hair and a brown beard set against a gold circular halo with decorative patterns; the face is rendered in dark brown and lighter brown highlights with solemn eyes and a neutral mouth. The figure wears a garment with red and dark green areas and ornate decorative trim in gold and white dots, and there are curled hair details at the shoulders. The surrounding border is brown with a green inner edge and a thin red outer edge, and smaller decorative motifs appear within the gold halo. Colors visible include brown, dark brown, gold, red, green, white, and black.

Crédit

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Notre référence

LZT26A19_046

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

87.8Mo (5.2Mo) / 43.3cm x 50.8cm / 5112 x 6000 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Icon Christ Savior Old Believer Popovtsy workshop Russian workshop Subject Jesus Christ Medium type icon Description face depicted kovcheg brown complexion brightened white tones forehead eyelids under eyes chin mouth Eyes large nose long straight hair parted middle falling circular locks shoulders beard small bipartite Christ wears red chiton gold border decorated delicate plant ornament malachite himation ornament head cruciform halo letters arms cross placed double overlapping rhombuses gold red background gilded Style linear tendencies decorativeness stylization Date 2nd half 19th century Place Western Russia Dimensions height 31 cm width 25.5 cm Inscriptions present Iconography star halo painted panel showing frontal portrait person long dark brown hair brown beard set gold circular halo decorative patterns rendered dark brown lighter brown highlights solemn eyes neutral mouth figure wears garment dark green areas ornate decorative trim white dots curled hair details surrounding border brown green inner edge thin outer edge smaller decorative motifs within gold halo Colors visible include green white black.