No. 1 (32) (2024), Forum
No. 1 (32) (2024)

The Icon of Saint John the Baptist with Selected Saints in prayer to the Icon of Our Lady of the Sign in collection of Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.46748/ARTEURAS.2024.01.014
Published 2024-03-30
Alina Yu. Khionina
Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation
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fine art of Ural, icon painting, Old Believers’ icons, Nevyansk icons, icon of selected saints

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Khionina, A.Y. (2024) ‘The Icon of Saint John the Baptist with Selected Saints in prayer to the Icon of Our Lady of the Sign in collection of Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts’, The Art of Eurasia, (1), pp. 188–195. doi:10.46748/ARTEURAS.2024.01.014.
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Abstract

The article examines the Icon of Saint John the Baptist with Selected Saints from the collection of the Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts. The icon was created in 1914, as indicated by the dating inscription, and represents a late example of Old Believer iconography. The inscribed icon's historical context is taken into consideration, including the mobilisation of soldiers for the First World War, the emperor’s act of religious freedom of 1905, and the cultural tradition of Russian Old Believers, particularly those in the Ural region. The article discusses the selection of saints and their iconography within the Old Believer icon-painting tradition and the range of Ural icon-painting monuments. Selection of saints and chosen types of iconography demonstrate a complex attitude to the functional purpose of icons with saint patrons.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46748/ARTEURAS.2024.01.014

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