Holy Gates
Iconography: Half-doors of Holy Gates
Date: XIII century. The second half of the 13th c.
Iconographic school/art center: Novgorod school
Origin: From the Church of the Assumption in the Pogost of Krivoe at Severnaya Dvina.
Material: Wood, tempera
Dimensions: height 139 (правая); 137 (левая) cm, width 32 (правая); 35 (левая) cm
The scene of the Annunciation, depicted in a horseshoe-like finial of the leaves, with the Archangel (left) and the Mother of God (right). Below are the figures of two saints represented in strictly frontal poses: John the Baptist (?) (left) and St. Basil the Great (right).
Inv. №12876, 12877. © The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Bibliography:
Государственная Третьяковская Галерея. Каталог собрания. Древнерусское искусство X — начала XV века. Том I. №17.
Right half-door
Left half-door