The multi-plot composition includes an image of several events related to the story of the Nativity of Christ.
Like many works of art of Palekh, he repeats the sample of the 17th century. The icon is a professional work of Palekh painting of the XIX century, representing art and museum value. The Virgin is depicted seated, with the infant Christ on her knees, her right hand in a gesture common to the iconography of Our Lady of Sedmiezer; in the left hand of the infant a power and a scepter.
Both are in royal garments, crowns on their heads. The crown of Mary is dressed over the maforia, it is supported by two angels. Against the background, the image of the angel is shown to Joseph in a dream, to the right – Joseph with a knapsack on his shoulder – from the scene “Flight into Egypt”. In the upper field is the blessing God the Father in a garland of clouds; in the upper corners – the cherub and the seraph. On the side fields in pairs: the Monk Joasaph-Prince and the Great Martyr.
Gleb, Reverend Feoktist and martyr of Famaid. The name of the icon, rare in iconography, is supposedly given. The icon, performed in the middle of the XIX century, represents iconographic interest, has an artistic and museum significance. A sample of professional icon painting of the late XIX century. in the traditional tempera technique. Represents iconographic interest.
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