The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin
Type:
Icon
Period:
1795 year
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.
