Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 80:
Saint Feodosii of the Caves
Part of triptych (?), cat. nos 80-81
16th century, repainted ca 1900, Moscow
NMI 64

Wood: Linden (Tilia sp.), egg tempera.
Each panel made of single board with
two splines inlaid from opposite sides.

Inscriptions a t.: Hand-written text in
pencil in Cyrillic letters: Moskovskoe
pismo (in Moscow style)

PROVENANCE: Olof Aschberg;
Gift of O.Aschberg 1933
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kjellin 1933, no 64–65;
Kjellin 1956, p 291
CONSERVATION: Each restored prior to
en ter ing NM: the figure transferred to new
panel and surrounded by new ground on
background and borders, probably at the
beginning 20th century, at the same time
repainted and text on scroll reconstructed

St Anthony and St Feodosii founded
the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev in
the 11th century. The well-known icon
the Mother of God of the Caves (or of
Sven), dated to about 1288 (Tretyakov
Gallery, no TG 12723), shows these
monastic saints praying to the Mother
of God; the main church of the mon -
astery was dedicated to the Dormition.
In this instance, however, according to
the prayer on the scrolls, they are addressing
Christ. These icons may possibly
have been parts of a triptych with
Christ in the centre.
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