Our Lady of the Don

Our Lady of the Don (Donskaya Mother of God)
Cm 34 x 40
Solid wood, levkas (gesso), 24 K gold leaf, egg yolk tempera.
Veronica Jane Gatti, 2022.
Ready to be delivered.

Painted at the very beginning of 2022, this sacred icon of the Mother of God is based on the russian traditional 14th-century Eleusa icon representing Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus Christ, painted by Theophanes the Greek. I re-visited the drawing following two other icons of Our Lady of the Don that I love: the Donskaya Mother of God from Moscow, second half of the 16th century, https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/russian-works-art-faberge-icons-l15116/lot.502.html  and the Donksaya Mother of God from the Old Believers.https://www.ruicon.ru/arts-new/icons/1x1-dtl/kalendar/bogomater_donskaya_s_prp_kirillom_belozerskim_na_pole/?page_20=992&p_f_11_temp_id=1&p_f_11_75=1&ref-cat=