8. The Birth Of The Mother Of God

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Late of the 18 ctntury - early of the 19th century. Central Russia.
Wood, lewkas, tempera.
Size: 34x28x3,1 cm

Russian Icon of the Nativity of the Mother of God. In the festival of the Nativity of the Mother of God (September 8th), the Church celebrates the most holy human birth, whose "fruit most pure" was elect and sanctified from the moment of conception (Conception of Saint Anna, celebrated December 9th). The iconography of the Nativity of the Mother of God habitually shows us Saint Anna half lying on a bed, surrounded by servants getting ready to wash the newly-born Infant. The Holy Virgin is generally represented in swaddling clothes, in the arms of a midwife seated on a stool near the basin filled with water.

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Price: 2400 Euro

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