SZÜLETÉS / the nativity

ma előünnep, virrasztás, szenteste, holnap születés

(és A Három Királyok és a pásztorok hódolatának emléknapja is)

today: vigil & tomorrow: nativity

Theophanes the Cretan 's fresco
Crtean school
16th century

Az ember legszívesebben beköltözne ide.
It would be good to move into!

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nagyon piros... és nagyon különleges...

full of red... and very special...

THE NATIVITY OF CHRIST WITH SELECTED SAINTS

15th-16th century

Russian Museum, Leningrad

Pskov school

two details

HÁROMKIRÁLYOK és egy dada

'There is much that is life-like and spontaneous in the women bathing the Child, in the sad-looking Joseph and the young shepherd blowing the horn. The figuress are scattered over the surface of the icon. The half-lenght figures of saints are not in proportion with figures of the main section. The dark colour of the mountain apparently signifies the darkness of night. The icon deviates from the iconographic canosn, the angels singing glory having been added by the painter. A shepherd boy has wormed himself into the Deesis but he turns round to look at his comrade." /E. Smirnova from the Early Russian Icon Painting by M.V. Alpatov/

ilyen egészben az előző ikon részlete

this is the full view of the previous post

(Byzantine Museum Athens)