The Prophet Zacharias-The Transfiguration
  • The Prophet Zacharias-The Transfiguration

    TitleThe Prophet Zacharias-The Transfiguration
  • Technique/ MaterialWood: Poplar, egg tempera
  • DimensionsDimensions: (h x b x dj) 97 x 35 x 2,5 cm
    Frame: (h x b x dj) 98 x 36 x 7 cm
  • DatingDated late 17th century
  • CategoryPaintings, Icons
  • Inventory No.NMI 26
  • AcquisitionGåva 1933 av Olof Aschberg
  • Description
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    Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 136:
    The Prophet Zacharias-The Transfiguration
    Part of Prophet/Festival tiers of an iconostasis, cat. nos 130-145
    [NMI 20-35]
    Late 17th century, Onega district, region of Novgorod, Kargopol (?)
    NMI 26

    Wood: Poplar (Populus sp.).
    Two splines inlaid from opposite sides.

    Inscriptions a t.: Two horizontal lines
    in white paint with two black lines
    over them.

    EXHIBITIONS: Stockholm 1988, no 31
    CONSERVATION: Crack right through the
    upper half of the icon, to the right of
    centre; minor losses of canvas, ground and
    paint layers along the lower edge;
    scattered coarser coloured wax insertions
    on background and borders; uneven yellowish varnish.
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