Icon with Extended Deesis with Saints Zossim and Savatti

Image credit: Girton College, University of Cambridge

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This large rectangular panel of the extended Deesis was taken from an Iconostatis. The composition is centred by the figure of Christ, with Archangels Gabriel and Michael behind. On the right hand of Christ is the Virgin, crowned and wearing imperial vestments. On his left, St Peter, who also wears a crown, occupies the space where John the Baptist is customarily shown. The Deesis is extended to include Saints Basil, Gregory the Great, John Chrysostom, Stephen of Sourozh and Theodosii Pechersky, as well as the sainted Muscovite Metropolitans, Peter, Alexis and Jonah, the Bishop Vlasii and the Monk and Saint Yakov Borovitsky. Saints Zossim and Savatii, founders of the Solevyetski Monastery, are shown prostrate before Christ.

Girton College, University of Cambridge

Cambridge

Title

Icon with Extended Deesis with Saints Zossim and Savatti

Date

17th C

Medium

oil on wood panel

Measurements

H 60.9 x W 182.8 cm

Accession number

498

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Diana Lorch (Robinson), 2005

Work type

Painting

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