Icon, Mother of God, Deesis - Wood - 19th century
Beautiful Russian icon from the early 1800s depicting the Madonna of the Intercession in very good condition and of good size, set in a frame with gold leaf decorations. The icon of the Mother of God is very significant from the theological point of view The Madonna is represented in 3/4 length, half-length, with the tables in her hand The Byzantine missionaries would have brought it to the Russian church and it would have become famous in 1170 for the liberation of the city of Novgorod, obtained through the intercession of the sacred icon, for this Our Lady of the Intercession. Dimensions with frame 42 x 37 cm Icon size 31 x 26. 5 cm Accurate and tracked shipping
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Beautiful Russian icon from the early 1800s depicting the Madonna of the Intercession in very good condition and of good size, set in a frame with gold leaf decorations. The icon of the Mother of God is very significant from the theological point of view The Madonna is represented in 3/4 length, half-length, with the tables in her hand The Byzantine missionaries would have brought it to the Russian church and it would have become famous in 1170 for the liberation of the city of Novgorod, obtained through the intercession of the sacred icon, for this Our Lady of the Intercession. Dimensions with frame 42 x 37 cm Icon size 31 x 26. 5 cm Accurate and tracked shipping