8. Icon on glass, "The Heavenly Feast", painted frame, probably painter Ioan Costea Verman, Mărginimea Sibiului, approx. 1830-1850, extremely rare collector's item
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8. Icon on glass, "The Heavenly Feast", painted frame, probably painter Ioan Costea Verman, Mărginimea Sibiului, approx. 1830-1850, extremely rare collector's item
Starting price:
EUR 350
Sold
EUR 1.400
tempera on glass, 45 x 40 cm, 45 Ã 40 cm
Research information
No other icons are known with this iconographic theme in the public collections of Romania.
The model for the icon was a wood engraving made at Hăşdate. The composition is divided, using diagonal bands, into five fields, depicting Virgin Mary and the Baby, Christ Pantocrator, Saint Paraskeva, Saint Nicholas, in bust form, with a seraph placed in the central rhombus. (M.B.)
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