Russian icon Madonna Peschanskaya, restored
Russian icon Madonna Peschanskaya, restored.
Antique Russian icon, coming from the Gold Ring school of artists (Moscow), and finely restores by iconography masters in Mosocow's laboratory.
This icon type's history begins in 1754, in the Church of the Resurrection in Kharkov. According to the legend, while the parish priest was examining the church, he saw, on a pile of rubbish, the icon. A voice came from the image saying: "See what have been done by the ministers of this church. My image was dest...
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Russian icon Madonna Peschanskaya, restored.
Antique Russian icon, coming from the Gold Ring school of artists (Moscow), and finely restores by iconography masters in Mosocow's laboratory.
This icon type's history begins in 1754, in the Church of the Resurrection in Kharkov. According to the legend, while the parish priest was examining the church, he saw, on a pile of rubbish, the icon. A voice came from the image saying: "See what have been done by the ministers of this church. My image was destined to this country as a spring of blessings, and has been left in the dirt". In 1792, the Church of the Resurrection was translated to the outer part of Zamosc, on a sandy promontory. In Russian, pesok means sand, while Peschanskaya can be translated as of the sand. All through the XIX century this icon was associated with many healings and, around 1800, a child came back to life after their parents had prayed to the Madonna Peschanskaya.
Origin: Gold Ring (Russia).
Technique: tempera, gold leaf.
Size: 32x38 cm.
Period: early 1900s.
Restoration: restored in 2016 by iconography masters in Mosocow's laboratory.