Icon with the Mother of God Bogolubskaya (‘The God Loving’)

Image credit: Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery

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The Bogolubskaya is a particular Marian icon type in the Russian Orthodox Church. It relates to a reported apparition of the Virgin Mary to Grand Prince Andrei Bogolubsky in 1155 (the original icon was painted for him in 1157).

Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery

Blackburn

Title

Icon with the Mother of God Bogolubskaya (‘The God Loving’)

Date

late 18th C

Medium

tempera on panel

Measurements

H 28.7 x W 23 cm

Accession number

1080

Acquisition method

gift from the Art Fund from the Kathleen Fenwick Bequest, 1982

Work type

Painting

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