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The Crucifixion |
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(On the reverse: "The Mother of God Hodegetria") 13th century. Processional icon. 96 x 94 cm Tempera. Plaster ground on canvas. Base – board. From the Church of the Mother of God Peribleptos (St. Clement’s), Ohrid. Today - at the Icon Gallery, Ohrid. Condition: The icon is damaged at several places. The lower right angel of the frame is broken. The ground together with the layer of paint, flaked off at several places. The leg up to the knees of the Mother of God, the palm of the left hand of Christ, and one of the angels are completely destroyed. |
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Iconography: In the centre, a large cross with the crucified Christ is painted in an imagined space, stressed by the gold background. The cross is planted among stones and under them is Adam’s tomb. On both sides of the cross are portrayed the Mother of God, in full length and with arms raised to breast height in an attitude of adoration, and St. John, full length, with slightly-bowed head. Around the thighs of the crucified Christ, a loincloth is falling in several folds. Above the arms of the cross, in the upper corners of the icon, two angels in flight, (one of them is completely destroyed). Conservation: Because of the extremely bad state of the wooden base eaten by worms, the paint together with the layer of the wooden base (about 5 mm) was transferred onto a specially prepared panel. Zdravko Blazevic did conservation in the laboratory of IPCM 1956 in Skopje.
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