Collection of Russian Icons from Holy Land

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Collection of Russian Icons from Holy Land :
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Russian Icons from Holy Land

The use and making oficonsenteredKievan Rus\'following its conversion toOrthodox Christianityin AD 988. As a general rule, these icons strictly followed models and formulas hallowed byByzantine art, led from the capital inConstantinople. As time passed, the Russians widened the vocabulary of types and styles far beyond anything found elsewhere in the Orthodox world.

The personal, innovative and creative traditions of Western Europeanreligious artwere largely lacking in Russia before the 17th century, when Russian icon painting became strongly influenced by religious paintings and engravings from both Protestant andCatholic Europe. In the mid-17th-century changes in liturgy and practice instituted byPatriarch Nikonresulted in a split in the Russian Orthodox Church. The traditionalists, the persecuted \"Old Ritualists\" or \"Old Believers\", continued the traditional stylization of icons, while the State Church modified its practice. From that time icons began to be painted not only in the traditional stylized and non-realistic mode, but also in a mixture of Russian stylization and Western European realism, and in a Western European manner very much like that of Catholic religious art of the time. These types of icons, while found the Russian Orthodox churches, are also sometimes found in various sui juris rites of theCatholic Church.

Russian icons are typicallypaintings on wood, often small, though some in churches and monasteries may be much larger. Some Russian icons were made of copper.Many religious homes in Russia have icons hanging on the wall in thekrasny ugol, the \"red\" or \"beautiful\" corner.

There is a rich history and elaborate religious symbolism associated with icons. In Russian churches, thenaveis typically separated from thesanctuaryby aniconostasis(Russianikonostas, иконостас), or icon-screen, a wall of icons with double doors in the centre.

Russians sometimes speak of an icon as having been \"written\", because in the Russian language (like Greek, but unlike English) the same word (pisat\', писать in Russian) means both to paint and to write. Icons are considered to be the Gospel in paint, and therefore careful attention is paid to ensure that the Gospel is faithfully and accurately conveyed.

Icons considered miraculous weresaid to \"appear.\"The \"appearance\" (Russian:yavlenie, явление) of an icon is its supposedly miraculous discovery. \"A true icon is one that has \'appeared\', a gift from above, one opening the way to the Prototype and able to perform miracles\"

Size:

20 cm x 15 cm

15 cm x 10 cm

6 cm x 4 cm

This item is being sold from the Hamedian Gallery in Jerusalem, Israel. We
are known worldwide and specialize in Russian Icons, antiquities, oriental
carpets and jewelry. We are authorized antiquities dealers by the Israeli antiquities authority.

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