1637, Moscow
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1637, Moscow
- Identifier
- 1975.87
- Transfer of custody
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Acquisition
- Rogers Fund, 1975
- Collection
- Material
- Technique
- Depiction
- Floral motif 51%
- Floral motif 60%
- Floral motif 42%
- Floral motif 40%
- Floral motif 34%
- Floral motif 64%
- Floral motif 43%
- Floral motif 38%
- Vegetal motif 40%
- Vegetal motif 45%
- Vegetal motif 61%
- Vegetal motif 65%
- Vegetal motif 43%
- Vegetal motif 52%
- Vegetal motif 50%
- Vegetal motif 45%
- Vegetal motif 44%
- Vegetal motif 46%
- Vegetal motif 72%
- Geometrical motif 64%
- Geometrical motif 45%
- Geometrical motif 45%
- Geometrical motif 61%
- Geometrical motif 62%
- Geometrical motif 44%
- Geometrical motif 44%
- Geometrical motif 48%
- Geometrical motif 57%
- Geometrical motif 46%
- Geometrical motif 44%
- Geometrical motif 53%
- Floral motif 51%
- Production time
- Production place
Description
The frame honors the acheiropoieta, "not made by human hands," icon of Christ. The narratives on the doors tell its history from Christ’s leaving his image on the cloth with which he wiped his face on his way to Calvary through the cloth’s role as the protector of the kingdom of Edessa (in modern Turkey) and then its transfer to the Byzantine imperial capital in 944. In 1380 Muscovite armies, following the image on a battle standard, defeated the Mongols at the famous battle of Kulikovo. This elegant later work demonstrates the icon’s continuing importance to the Muscovite court.
