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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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To: Kolokotronis
Better graphic:



The Intercession of the Virgin
(end of the 14th-beginning of the 15th c.)

Novgorodian School icons

22 posted on 09/07/2009 7:02:46 PM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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