Antique Russian Icon 1840 OUR LADY Dormition ASSUMPTION
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Antique Russian Icon 1840 OUR LADY Dormition ASSUMPTION Technique (creation media) Tempera/oil painting on wood Creation period 1840-1860 Culture/Origin Russia Style and motive Byzantine-Russian Artist/ Creator Provincial school Mark/Signature/ Inscription/Label Cyrillic easel inscriptions are indistinct Overall Condition Very good Imperfections/defects (see pics first of all) Losses Restoration if any Inpaintings, cleaning, varnish Measurements metric 36 cm by 28 cm Measurements inches 14.17 in by 11 in Net weight App. 2 kg App. Gross weight /dimensional 3 kg Notes: good quality artwork /wiki/Assumption_of_Mary Although the Assumption (Latin: assūmptiō, "taken up") was only relatively recently defined as infallible dogma by the Catholic Church, and in spite of a statement by Saint Epiphanius of Salamis in AD 377 that no one knew whether Mary had died or not,[4] apocryphal accounts of the assumption of Mary into heaven have circulated since at least the 4th century. The Catholic Church itself interprets chapter 12 of the Book of Revelation as referring to it.[5] The earliest known narrative is the so-called Liber Requiei Mariae (The Book of Mary's Repose), which survives intact only in an Ethiopic translation.[6] Probably composed by the 4th century, this Christian apocryphal narrative may be as early
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