1387–1395
Wood, tempera
149 õ 98
The name and date of the chin (row) is linked with events in the life of the man who ordered it, the abbot of the Vysotsky Monastery, Afanasy the Elder.
In 1382 Afanasy accompanied Metropolitan Kiprian to Kiev and in 1387 he followed him to Tsargrad (Constantinople). The icons which he sent from Constantinople to Serpukhov were taken to the monastery already in the days of its recipient, abbot Afanasy the Younger (+ 1395).
Such works were held in especially high esteem by Russian masters and influenced the shaping of icon painting in the age of Andrei Rublev.
at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 59
