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Icon of St Nicholas

Russian School

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Icon of St Nicholas

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This small icon shows a mitred St Nicholas, his name written in Slavonic, blessing with one hand and holding a staff with the other. He stands in a palatial setting dominated by a red curtain hung against marble walls. At the bottom of the icon a Slavonic inscription gives an illegible painter's name and the date 1808. The painting style is entirely western and modern. A silver revetment (riza) datable to 1850 is preserved.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Title

Icon of St Nicholas

Date

18th C–19th C

Medium

oil on panel

Measurements

H 8.8 x W 6.6 cm

Accession number

AN1915.183

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Professor Ingram Bywater, 1915

Work type

Painting

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