Jesus Christ

Christ Pantokrator

Heritage: Bulgarian

Original: 1607/124,5 x 87,5 cm

Now in: Crypt Al. Nevski, Sofia

Replica: 2005/80 x 59,5 cm

 

Christ is shown half-length and full-face in the customary pose, making the gesture of benediction with his right hand, the arm hidden by the himation down to the wrist, his left hand holding a Gospel open at the text: “I am the light of the world (John VIII. 12); he that believed in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whoso ever liveth and believeth in me shall never die (John XI.25,26). While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light.” (John XII.36). He wears the traditional dark red chiton (with a vermilion clavus and gold hatching) and a dark blue himation. The characteristic monograms on the cross behind his head “I AM THAT I AM “ (the Ever-existing) as Christ called himself when Moses asked him for the name of the Lord (Exodus III.14).

The stylization which is obvious in the garments is even more clearly expressed in the hair arrangement, done in parallel schematized tufts.

The face is painted on an ochre-olive green foundation, and the cheeks, the chin, the forehead and the nose are modelled in pink ochre, pink being the predominant colour. The inscription is in red letters, arranged on both sides of the figure. A donor’s inscription is in the lower part of the frame, also in red letters upon the gold back-ground: “Prayer of the Lord’s slave Mano Julianou, together with his wife and children, 1607.“

Cat. No 1.2004

 

 

The Entry into Jerusalem

Heritage: Bulgarian,from Prissovo, near Veliko Tarnovo

Now in: Sofia, Chrypt Al. Nevski

Оriginal:17 C./39,5 x 34,5 x 2,5 cm

Replica:2005/36 х 32,5 сm

 

This icon gives us the story of one of the most important moments of the life of Jesus Christ and one of the great Orthodox feasts. Very characteristic for the work of iconographer John of Chevindol are the week bodies with unproportionally big heads. The icon has the charm of a primitive work. There is an inscription in Greek in red letters against a gold background.

 

Cat. № 1.37.2

 

 

 

   

The Ascension of Christ

Heritage: Bulgarian, from Nessebur, Church of St. John

Now in: Crypt Al. Nevski

Оriginal: 17 C./43,2 х 33 сm

Replica: 2005/80 x 58 сm

 

 

The icon THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST is from the same festal range with THE DORMITION OF THE VIRGIN (Cat. № 1.2007) and probably these two icons are completed by the same master. Above the heads of the Apostles and the Theotokos is depicted Christ in ascension. The disc, in which Christ is depicted, is carried from both sides by two Angels.

                                                                         Cat. № 1.2006

 

 

 

   

 

 

   

Baptism of Jesus Christ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

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