tripartite icon (shown unassembled). The plot in the center - "Jesus in prison" - is visible when you stand before the icon. If you move away to the left, there is the image of the Virgin. When viewed from the right is seen the third story: John the Baptist. In the Orthodox iconostasis these three images are often stand side by side and are called "Deisis rank. 19 century, Russia, tempera, board, 48x42 cm Collection of icon-painting workshop "Canon»
Once in the museum of Old Russian art in Moscow brought the icon of "Jesus in prison." Her story reflects the events before the death of Christ, when his interrogated and tortured after his arrest in Gethsemane. On the icon depicts Jesus with shackles on his feet, and around it - guns Passion, that is torture. Near each terrible instrument indicated his name in Old Church Slavonic. The style of the inscriptions were able to determine that the house painter was the Old Believers.
Examination experts drew attention to the dark vertical stripes that cross the image, and suggested that it marks the lattice, which is attached to the icon giving the story more expressive. However, the clue to the thirteen stripes turned out to be much more enjoyable, and it belongs to the well-known art critic and artist Alexander Renzhinu.
As it turned out, the icon once contained not one but three images. And the band - no more than a trace of narrow planks, fastened to salary (frame) icons. On both sides of the slats are drawn (they say - are written) part of two more images. Standing in front of an icon, you can see the central image, moving away to the left - another right - the third.
straps from the icon, which brought to the Museum of Rublev, did not survive. But Renzhinu managed to find the exact same, but the whole icon. It consists of a board of 42 × 48 cm, and twelve (thirteenth lost) of thin plates of width 2.6 cm, spaced at 3.3 cm on each
slate on both sides of the written image of Our Lady and St John the Baptist - the prophet who predicted the coming of Christ and His Cross. Therefore, John is also called the Baptist. In the photo above you see the icon in the form in which it was found. In the studio Renzhina icon restored: manufactured oak frame, pasted in her image of Jesus in prison, and strengthened the vertical bar in front of him.
Alexander Renzhin that found and recovered icon "Deisis rank. On the left shows the same icon, front view. Photo 2005
text reproduced on the working papers Kalinin Anatoly T.
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