Our Lady of the Don

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Our Lady of the Don

Artist	Theophanes the Greek
Year	circa 1382–1395
Type	Wood, tempera
Location	Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Our Lady of the Don (Russian: Донская икона Божией Матери) is a 14th-century Eleusa icon representing the Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus Christ. The icon, currently held in Tretyakov Gallery, in Moscow, displays an Eleusa composition. The origins of the icon and the exact date of its creation are debated. It is believed that it was painted by Theophanes the Greek c. 1382–1395. The monastery book of Donskoy Monastery states that Our Lady of the Don was a gift from the Don Cossacks to Dmitry Donskoy the day before Battle of Kulikovo (1380).^[1]

Donskoy Monastery is the main shrine of the icon

References[edit]

^ Zabelin, Ivan (1865). Istoricheskoe Opisanie Moskovskogo Donskogo Monastyria.

External links[edit]

Media related to Our Lady of the Don at Wikimedia Commons
Our Lady of the Don at the Pravoslavie.ru (in Russian).
Byzantium: faith and power (1261-1557), an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Our Lady of the Don (88)

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