With brilliant gold as a background and surrounded
by an ornate border, various scenes from the life of
Christ and the Virgin Mary are depicted on this
beautiful icon. Twelve panels surround the central
portion, representing the events honored by the
major feast days of the church calendar, which shows
Christ ascending into heaven surrounded by saints;
with His baptism by St. John the Forerunner at lower
right. A second Baptism is seen in the fifth panel,
(clockwise from upper left), as is another Ascension
scene below. The Dormition of the Virgin Mary is
beneath the Ascension with Christ floating above his
dying mother, enveloped in a red nimbus, as He is in
other depictions of Him in the purely spiritual state.
Other scenes include Jesus' entry into Jerusalem and
the Nativity; joining together with the entire
sequence of images to create a vivid impression of
the life of Christ.
- (PF.5287)
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