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The Transfiguration of Jesus, handmade icon painted on Ivory. Early 19th Century.

The Transfiguration of Jesus, handmade icon painted on Ivory. Early 19th Century.

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A handmade painted icon on Ivory, displaying the transfiguration of Jesus Christ. Early 19th C. (1820-1840)

On the left hand St. Peter and Paul, on the right hand St. John the warrior. 

The icon is in excellent condition. 

Size: 20.5x14.5 closed, 20.5x27.5 opened cm. 8x5.7 closed, 8x10.8 opened inch. 

The Transfiguration of Jesus has been an important subject in Christian art, above all in the Eastern church, some of whose most striking icons show the scene.

The Feast of the Transfiguration has been celebrated in the Eastern church since at least the 6th century and it is one of the Twelve Great Feasts of Eastern Orthodoxy, and so is widely depicted, for example on most Russian Orthodox iconostases. In the Western church the feast is less important, and was not celebrated universally, or on a consistent date, until 1475, supposedly influenced by the arrival in Rome on August 6, 1456 of the important news of the breaking of the Ottoman Siege of Belgrade, which helped it to be promoted to a universal feast, but of the second grade.

The subject typically does not appear in Western cycles of the Life of Christ, except for the fullest, such as Duccio's Maestà, and the Western iconography can be said to have had difficulty finding a satisfactory composition that does not merely follow the supremely dramatic and confident Eastern composition, which in Orthodox fashion has remained little changed over the centuries.

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