The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin

Type: Icon

Period: 1795 year

Author: Unknown

School: Unknown

Dimmensions (cm): 63.5 / 43.7

Location

Country: Bulgaria

Province: Blagoevgrad

Monastery: Rila Monastery

Museum: Rila Monastery National Museum

Source

Country: Bulgaria

Province: Blagoevgrad

Monastery: Rila monastery

Church: The ossuary church at the Rila monastery's graveyard

Object identification notes

The icon is similar to the murals in the same church in stylistic features, type, palaeography of the inscriptions and colouring, and is likely to be the work of the same painter. A temple icon from the church of the same name. Icons of this kind mark the new animation in iconography.

Iconographical technique: Tempera

Base material: Wood

Softwood.