Antique icon, The Twelve Feasts with basma, Russia, beginning of 19th century
Antique icon, The Twelve Feasts with basma, Russia, beginning of 19th century. Antique icon of the beginning of the 19th century from Central Russia, painted on levkas wood with egg tempera and enriched by a basma, a riza made of metal sheets nailed to the icon.
This icon represents the Twelve Feasts, the most important festivities of the Byzantine tradition, including moveable and fixed feasts. Written on embossed stars on the riza framing the icon, the feasts create a frame of rectangular scene...
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Antique icon, The Twelve Feasts with basma, Russia, beginning of 19th century. Antique icon of the beginning of the 19th century from Central Russia, painted on levkas wood with egg tempera and enriched by a basma, a riza made of metal sheets nailed to the icon.
This icon represents the Twelve Feasts, the most important festivities of the Byzantine tradition, including moveable and fixed feasts. Written on embossed stars on the riza framing the icon, the feasts create a frame of rectangular scenes around a bigger central one, representing Easter, the most important of all.
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Measures: 30.5x27 cm.