The author’s signature with the date: “V. Guryanov, 1912” in the icon on the lower right of the middleman. On the back of the icon the ink seal: “Artistic and icon painting workshop of Vasily Pavlovich Guryanov in Moscow”.
The icon is written by the outstanding masters’ icon painter and restorer of Rublev’s “Trinity” Vasily Pavlovich Guryanov and represents a vivid example of church art culture of the turn of the XIX and XX centuries.
In the work there is a compromise of the pictorial language, created on the basis of both icon-painting and illusionistic techniques. Guryanov finely models faces, paying great attention to deep shadows that create the effect of naturalistic certainty. With an emphasis on accuracy, he writes a purple mantle with gold, a bright red cloak, a green vestment.
Pozem in his interpretation was transformed into a kind of “quattrocentent” landscape with gentle rocky slides covered with rare vegetation. Through the melting bluish haze the city walls, towers, temples appear.
An explicitly customized icon depicts a Novgorod saint, a nobleman by the origin of Mikhail Klopsky. He was famous for the prediction of the death of Novgorod’s liberty. The day of his memory is celebrated on January 24 n. Art. The Orthodox Church commemorates several holy martyrs named Alexander, but it is not possible to identify the depicted virgin. Krasilin 1996.
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