5421

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 8, Item SC07.02.3.038

Creator:

Hammer Galleries

Extent:

1 page

Scope and content:

Transcription: [double-headed eagle] RUSSIAN IMPERIAL EXHIBIT March 26th, 1934. Article No. 5421 An icon of "St. Nicholas the Wonder Worker", patron saint of Russia, with Christ and the Madonna. This icon was presented to Nicholai II when he was still a Czarevitch, by a peasant icon painter whose name appears on the border of the icon. The inscription on the back reads: "From a peasant of the village of Materi, Province of Vladimir---Joseph Andrew Pankreshoff. Presented to His Imperial Highness, Czarevitch and Grand Duke Nicholai Alexandrovitch." Taken from the historic apartment of the Anitchkov Palace, with the inventory number #6794 The fascinating history of icons can be traced back to the time of the pyramids in Egypt, but the oldest examples today are to be found in the Russian churches. The primary influence was that of the Byzantine which accounts for their resemblance to the Italian Primitive with which we are more familiar. The spiritual feeling in these works of art is the expression of the monks who painted them after long and fervent prayer.

From the Hammer Collection – Three East Fifty-second Street, New York, N. Y.

Language:

English

Acquisition information:

Gift of Lillian Thomas Pratt.

Biographical / historical:

American--1

Physical description:

Paper

Physical facet:

Sales records

Related material:

47.20.5

Names:

Hammer Galleries

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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