ST. GENADII OF KOSTROMA

Creator(s): Unknown (Painter) , Unknown (Jeweler)

On view in: Russian Sacred Arts Gallery

About this object

To the right the full-length figure of St. Genadii stands on a hillock overlooking the Spaso-Gennadiev monastery which he founded on Lake Sursk in Iaroslavl province in 1505. He gazes up at the vision of Christ enthroned in Glory at the upper left and raises his right hand in prayer, while in his left he holds an unfurled scroll on which is inscribed "Holy God that dwellest on high and that seest us with Thy all-seeing eye." The monastery complex lies within a fortified wall surrounded by a moat and with forests behind it. Two donor saints, St. John of Damascus and St. Jonah, Archbishop of Novgorod, are painted in the left and right polye respectively. The icon is adorned with an oklad of gilded brass stamped with a rinceau of leaves, flowers and fruit in blue, white and green filigree enamel.

Object name:

ST. GENADII OF KOSTROMA

Made from:

Tempera on wood -- enamel -- gilded brass

Made in:

Russia

Date made:

19th Century

Size:

32.5 × 28.6 cm (12 13/16 × 11 1/4 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

54.11

Class:

ICON

Signature marks:

INSCRIPTION; LABEL ICON (recto): the OCS inscription on the scroll reads "GODI STYI V BOLSHIKH ZHIVY I VT VIDOSHIM TVOIM OKOM PRIZIRAIA I NAM"; (verso): "M16.1970 Post" (on label); "#6" (in blue pencil); "Ritza work done 89 No 9" (on label) Each figure is identified by an inscription engraved into the metal: "PREPODOBNYI GENADI KOSTROMSKI CHIUDOTVORETS"; "STY IOANN DAMASKII"; "STY IOAN ARKHIEPKOP NOVOGOROSKI"

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973