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Travel icon depicting Christ Pantocrator, 19th century

Bronze casting
Height x width: 8 × 6 cm Weight: 104.5 g.
Depicted half-length according to the canons of the earliest Russian tradition, the Savior, with a fixed and stern gaze directed at the viewer, raises his right hand in a gesture of blessing (often characterized by the dvuperstie, the two joined fingers typical of the Old Believers), while with his left he holds the open Gospel, a symbol of divine Law. This icon belongs to the group of Russian Old Believer icons, mass-produced from the 17th century onward and characterized by a strict adherence to the canons of the Byzantine tradition. Such artifacts, often made of bronze and sometimes enriched with colored enamels, were generally small in size and intended for private devotion. Their portability made them easy to carry and, if necessary, to conceal, thus meeting the religious needs of a community that, after the schism known as the Raskol, experienced periods of persecution by the official Russian Orthodox Church.
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OLD ORTHODOX ICONS FROM 17TH UNTIL 20TH CENTURY. Including a collection of important Traveling Russian Icons

Palazzo Caetani Lovatelli, tue 29 September 2026
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