Mother of God The Joy of All Afflicted, Russian painted icon, 18th c., 12.5x10 in
Mother of God The Joy of All Afflicted, Russian painted icon, 18th c., 12.5x10.2 inches. Icon from St. Petersbourg, painted on wood with egg tempera in the 18th century, representing the Mother of God The Joy of All Who Sorrow.
In the centre of the scene stands the Holy Virgin, often represented with her feet on the moon, with the Child in her left hand, crowned. All these signs come from the book of the Apocalypse. The icon presents the people invoking the Holy Virgin, sometimes divided in six g...
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Mother of God The Joy of All Afflicted, Russian painted icon, 18th c., 12.5x10.2 inches. Icon from St. Petersbourg, painted on wood with egg tempera in the 18th century, representing the Mother of God The Joy of All Who Sorrow.
In the centre of the scene stands the Holy Virgin, often represented with her feet on the moon, with the Child in her left hand, crowned. All these signs come from the book of the Apocalypse. The icon presents the people invoking the Holy Virgin, sometimes divided in six groups, all comforted by angels.
The Joy of all who sorrow was written in the Preobragenskaya church in 1685, but the icon fate stays unclear: one tradition says that the image was transferred to St. Petersburg in 1711 and that the painting remained in Moscow was a copy, iconographically quite different from the one in St. Petersburg.
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