Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 231:
The Mother of God the Protecting Veil "Pokrov"
First half of 19th century
NMI 285

Wood: Linden (Tilia sp.), egg tempera
on canvas. Panel made of two boards
with two splines inlaid from opposite
sides.

PROVENANCE: Siri Aschberg; Gift of
S.Aschberg 1961
CONSERVATION: Losses of paint layers and
ground specially along joint in central part,
darkened varnish panel worm-eaten, corners
and edges damaged, losses of wood
The iconography adheres to tradition,
with the Mother of God above in
the centre, and beneath her Romanus,
the singer and hymn-writer, flanked on
the left by the Patriarch of Jerusalem,
among others, and on the right by
Andrey the Holy Fool with his disciple.
In the bottom right corner, within
a separate architectural frame, is
a scene from the legend of the life
of Romanus, showing how the Mother
of God appears to the young singer in
a dream, when he has lost his voice.
She gives him a scroll to eat.1

1 Cf. Althaus, s.a., p 168.é
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