Archangel Michael and Saint Basil the Great

Iconography:  Michael, archangel, Basil the Great

Date: XIV century. 14th-15th centuries.

Iconographic school/art center:  The Byzantine icon painting

Origin: From the treasure-trove found in 1978 in the monastery of John the Baptist.

Material: Wood, levkas

Dimensions:  height 22,5 cm, width 17,5 cm

This image is a part of the folding icon (its right leaf) with the frontal depiction of the half-figures of the saints. A double-row icon.


Inv. № 25350 (3). © Pskov State United Historical, Architectural and Fine Arts Museum-Reserve

Bibliography: Васильева О.А. Иконы Пскова. М., 2006. № 6. С. 50.



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