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Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to devote its next auction to Icons: One Man’s Collection on Saturday, May 11, 2024. The sale features ov
These images of saints and apostles created by master Russian icon painters will leave you breathless and marveling at such skill. Centuries ago they...
Russians used to consider St. Nicholas of Byzantium entirely as their own saint. Today, every church in Russia has an icon featuring his image.
by Mary Elizabeth Podles This panel is probably the oldest painting in the National Gallery in Washington; it is called the "Mellon Madonna" after its donor. The painting is the type of Madonna known as the Virgin Hodegetria (She who points the way), of which there are almost countless versions in Byzantine art. The original prototype was a miracle-working icon of the Virgin in Constantinople, and its prototype in turn traced its heritage to a portrait of the Virgin supposedly painted from life by St. Luke. Thus it was considered to be a true image, to be copied as precisely as possib...