Icon; wood; painted; subjects, left to right: the holy worthy John (monk’s outfit) the holy John the Evangelist (?) holding the Gospel, the holy John the Precursor (John the Baptist always dressed in coarse garments with disheveled hair-- hermit in a desert); gold ground; nick in upper left, lower right and left corners, left center edge; probably late 17th century; 1600-1700 AD. Cost $200.00.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley), Eugen Neuhaus, Older University Collections, and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Russia
Collector:
Eugen Neuhaus
Collection date:
before 1930
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Icons (devotional images)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Production date:
1600-1700
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)