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To: Kolokotronis

What is this icon properly called? Is it Russian? Looks like Moscow school.


4 posted on 11/29/2006 8:27:42 PM PST by annalex
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To: annalex
"What is this icon properly called? Is it Russian? Looks like Moscow school"

I don't think I've ever seen this specific icon before. It looks like a variation of an icon called "The Intercession of the Virgin" which is a Novgorod School icon, 14th/15th century. It is certain that it is Russian.


6 posted on 11/30/2006 3:47:53 AM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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