Twelve Great Feasts antique icon, Russia, 18th-19th century
Twelve Great Feasts antique icon, Russia, 18th-19th century. Antique Russian icon from Moscow, painted in the 18th-19th century with egg tempera on an antique wood board of 41x36.5 cm.
This icon represents the Twelve Great Feasts of the Orthodox liturgical year, culminating in a thirteenth and most important Feast: Easter, the Resurrection of Christ, synthesis and accomplishement of all the others.
The Twelve Feasts are represented as a cycle of boxes around Easter, which is diveded in four episod...
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Twelve Great Feasts antique icon, Russia, 18th-19th century. Antique Russian icon from Moscow, painted in the 18th-19th century with egg tempera on an antique wood board of 41x36.5 cm.
This icon represents the Twelve Great Feasts of the Orthodox liturgical year, culminating in a thirteenth and most important Feast: Easter, the Resurrection of Christ, synthesis and accomplishement of all the others.
The Twelve Feasts are represented as a cycle of boxes around Easter, which is diveded in four episodes: Christ's descent into Hell, the procession of the Blessed towards Paradise, the Resurrection of Christ from the sepulchre and the apparition at Lake Tiberias.
The Twelve Feasts are: the Nativity of the Theotokos, the Presentation of the Theotokos, the Annunciation, the Nativity of Christ, the Presentation of Christ, the Theophany, the Palm Sunday, the Transfiguration, the Ascension of Christ, the Trinity of the Old Testament, the Elevation of the Holy Cross and the Dormition of the Theotokos.
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