Jesus Christ

Christ at the Sea of Galilee

The Book of Matthew describes how Jesus met two brothers, Andrew and Simon called Peter, catching fish at the Lake of Gennesaret, otherwise known as the Sea of Galilee. Calling on them to leave their...

Christ the Almighty

Christ the Almighty ( Pantocrator ) is the main iconographic type of Jesus Christ and is often encountered in Greek and Old Russian art. Icons of Christ the Almighty first appeared in the Dormition C...

Christ in the Dungeon (The Midnight Saviour)

Jesus Christ is generally depicted wearing a crown of thorns in the last hours of His life on earth. Although there are many different types, thematic variations and manners of execution, the face of...

Christ the Blessed Silence

Images of Jesus Christ as a boy with His arms crossed on His chest, sporting angel’s wings and a halo with crossed quadrangles, first appeared in wall-paintings in Greece, Mount Athos and the Balkans...

The Only Son

The composition of the Only Son was formed in the middle of the sixteenth century, in connection with work on a group of icons intended for the private chapel of Ivan the Terrible – the Annunciation ...

The Saviour Not Made By Human Hands

The apocryphal gospels tell the legend of King Abgar of Edessa, who wrote to Jesus asking to be cured of a serious disease. Christ called for water, washed His face and wiped it on a cloth. A perfect...

The Ascension

The four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles tell how Christ was taken up into heaven on the fortieth day after the Resurrection: “Until the day in which He was taken up, after that He through the H...

The Incredulity of Thomas

The story of doubting Thomas is described in the Gospel of John: “But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, ‘We ha...

Christ on the Road to Emmaus

The Book of Luke relates how two disciples were going to a village called Emmaus, when they were joined by Christ: “And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was f...

The Resurrection

Entering the Lord’s tomb on the third day, the Myrrhbearers saw an angel dressed in a white robe: “And the angel answered and said unto the women, ‘Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, who was...

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