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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Russian (19th century)
Title:Saint Damian and Saint Cosmas with the Mandilion, from an Icon Pattern Book
Date Made:late 19th century
Type:Print
Materials:Woodcut (proris) on paper
Measurements:Sheet: 13 3/16 x 8 1/4 in.; 33.5 x 21.0 cm
Accession Number:  AC 1993.44
Credit Line:Gift of Oriole Farb Feshbach
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Description:
A reverse image pattern for an icon depicting the Mandylion (Image of Edessa) and saints Cosmas and Damian. The saints are holding medical boxes. Various elements of the image contain inscriptions indicating the colors that icon painters were supposed to paint them. A separate ink inscription in the lower right corner reads "Moskov" (Moscow).

Tags:
saints; cloth; physicians; medicine; religion; Christianity; Orthodox Eastern Church; patterns; icons; Cyrillic

Subjects:
patterns (design elements); Religion; Christianity

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