Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 71:
The Old Testament Trinity
First quarter of 19th century, Moscow
NMI 71

Wood: Linden (Tilia sp.), egg tempera.
Panel made of single board with two
splines inlaid from opposite sides; back
painted dark red.

PROVENANCE: Olof Aschberg;
Gift of O.Aschberg 1933
EXHIBITIONS: Gävle 1970, no 4; Stockholm
1974, no 3; Malmö 1988, no 66
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kjellin 1933, no 71; Kjellin
1956, pp 163, 175
CONSERVATION: Not restored prior to entering
NM; NM 1949: conservation for flakes
and blisters; 1976: consolidation of paint
and retouching, dark retouchings removed;
scattered retouches on background and on
clothing of left angel. Yellowish varnish
all over the surface.
This icon is a faithful reproduction
of Andrey Rublyov’s Trinity icon, de -
clared canonical at the Church Council
in Moscow in 1551. There it was
established that when drawing the Trinity,
one should “paint from ancient
models, as painted by the Greek paint -
ers and as painted by Andrey Rublyov”.1
This icon, created in a refined, aristocra -
tic style, is typical of the Russian Empire
period, in the reign of Alexander I.

1 Vzdornov 1981, p 205
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