ca 1750 OLD ANTIQUE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX ICON SAINT PARASKEVA PYATNITSA

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ca 1750 OLD ANTIQUE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX ICON SAINT PARASKEVA PYATNITSA:
$3575.00

YOU ARE offerDING ON a mid-18th century Russian Orthodox icon depicting Saint Paraskeva Pyatnitsa with four border saints - the Guardian Angel, Sts. Antipas of Pergamum, Stephen, and Anastasia the Pharmakolytria.

Age: ca. 1750s
School: Central Russia, Old Believer\'s Workshop
Material: Egg tempera and gilding on wood
Size: 10 in x 12 in (26 cm x 31 cm)
Rarity: Scarce
Condition: Showing very minor paint loss and light craquelure on painted surface. Overall very good original condition.
Inventory number - 3-LGi-11

Description:

The icons depicts Saint Paraskeva Paraskeva one of the most beloved female saints of the Orthodox Russia. She is pictured half-figured, wearing a red maphorion of martyrdom over green regal dress with one hand in a blessing gesture and with a partially opened scroll in the other hand with beginning of the Nicene Creed: \"I believe in one God, the Father Almighty...\" Over her head she is wearing the cloth on which Christ left an imprint if his Holy Face and the crown of the martyrdom. The icon is painted in good detail in a manner characteristic to Old Believer\'s workshops.

Saint Paraskevi of Iconium (also known as Paraskeva Pyatnitsa) is venerated as a Christian virgin martyr. Her parents were Christian, and Paraskevi was named as such (the name means “Friday” in Greek) because she was baptized on a Friday and because Friday was the day of Christ\'s Passion. She became a preacher, and according to tradition, converted Emperor Antoninus Pius to Christianity, but, subsequently martyred and was beheaded at Iconium during the persecutions of Diocletian. She is a patron saint of farming and farm animals and people pray to her to rid of the most severe illness. Her feast is celebrated on October 25.

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