ANTIQUE 19th C Russian Orthodox Icon MOTHER OF GOD WEEPING AT THE CROSS

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ANTIQUE 19th C Russian Orthodox Icon MOTHER OF GOD WEEPING AT THE CROSS :
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Antique Russian Orthodox Icon

19th Century

MOTHER OF GOD WEEPING AT THE CROSS

Description:A waist-length representation of Our Lady with her hands are crossed upon thebreast.At the right side from the Virgin depicts TheCrucifixionat the Golgotha.At the left side - on the pillar depicts a rooster from the Gospel narratives about threefold Denial of Peter, before the cock crowed three times.
Besides the cross on the icon at the bottom shown in detail all the other instruments of the passions and objects in one way or another connected with the last days of Christ\'s: a hand which hit the Savior on lanite, a whip, nails, a dice.
Medium:Egg tempera, gold leaf and levkas (gesso) on a wood panel.
Size:12 1/2 incheshigh x 10 1/2 inches wide[32 cm x 26.5 cm]; thickness of the panel 1 1/4 inch[3 cm]
Condition:Good and stable state of preservation typical for the antique 19th Century Russian Icon. Two insert splints on the back.The wood panel is slightly arched due to the age.See photographs.
Iconography:This is a symbolic image of the evening of Good Friday. The composition of the icon is filled with a sense ofsorrowfulcalm before the future resurrection.Apparently, the appearance of this icon refers to the first half of the XVIII century and has a direct correlation with the apocryphal religious poems \"Weeping Virgin\" and \"Son of God\".

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