AN ICON «SAINT ALEXIS METROPOLITAN WITH SAINTS LEONTIUS AND ANTONY», AND THE APOSTLES IN THE MARGINS
Lotto 110
1 8002 000
Russia, late XVIII c
Wood, gesso, silver leaf, tempera
32 х 28 cm
Condition: scuff marks on the paint layer throughout the faces and the
clothes of saints, redecoration tinting above the renovated ground in the
fields.
Saint Metropolitan Alexis (born about 1292-1298 -died in 1378) was an
outstanding religious and statesman of Ancient Russia. The icon reproduces
the iconography of Saint Alexey from the middle part of the famous
icon by Dionysius (late XV) from the Uspensky cathedral of the Moscow
Kremlin.