NOVGOROD PATERNITY OF
s icon XIV (Tret'jakov Gallery, Moscow)
The image in question is the great icon of the Fatherhood of Novgorod late fourteenth century, whose dimensions confirm that it was intended for a church figure dominant is the Ancient of days that sits on a throne with backrest semicircular, covered in a white robe decorated with a red stripe fire, its aura is a cross and in the spaces between the arms of the cross are represented some seraphim in his left hand a scroll semi. With the blessing right by moving the thumb ring attached to the characteristic of the Incarnate Word. On her knees feel the Emmanuel with both hands holding a disc that this represented the dove of the Holy Spirit also has a halo with a cross with the seraphim. Elder's foot resting on a stool surrounded by the winged fiery wheels, starry eyes, the vision of Ezekiel; Seraphim are two sides of the throne as the vision of Isaiah. Beside the throne are two saints stylites, bottom right is a young apostle, probably Thomas and Philip.
The icon is accompanied by paleo-Slavic inscriptions located in three places: first on the sides of the head of the elder where they appear in large type the names of the three divine Persons of the Trinity, thus arranged: in the upper left Father, in the top right, and (y) Son, down, left, and Santo, bottom right, Spirit. The lyrics to this didascalia are much larger than those found in other places; bone on the back of the throne, to shoulder height of the Elderly, which read the four initials of the name of Jesus Christ: IC XC, and, finally, on the figure of the Holy Spirit, where the same reference to the name of the Second Person of the Trinity.
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