Explore: Virgin Of Vladimir (icon)

The Virgin of Vladimir, also known as Vladimir Mother of God, Our Lady of Vladimir (Russian: Владимирская икона Божией Матери), is a 12th-century Byzantine

Greek: Ἐλεούσα – tenderness or showing mercy) is a type of depiction of the Virgin Mary in icons in which the Christ Child is nestled against her cheek

dynastic closeness of Constantinople and Kievan Rus'. The son of Vsevolod Yaroslavich, Prince Vladimir II Monomakh, in 1095 transferred the icon from Chernigov

the Virgin Mary. A similar name is Our Lady of Constantinople. The original painting was in the form of the Virgin Hodegetria or Odigetria. The icon obtained

religious depiction of the Blessed Virgin Mary in a singular form or sometimes accompanied by the Child Jesus. These images are central icons for both the Roman

of Constantine and Helen. Synaxis of all saints of Karelia, Synaxis of the "Vladimir" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1521) Synaxis of the "Virgin of

Orthodox Church, a prominent icon painter, theorist of church art, and teacher. Laureate of the State Prize of Russia (1994). Vladimir Teodor graduated from

Theotokos of Vladimir. Paul of Aleppo, who accompanied the Patriarch of Antioch to Moscow in early 1655, was impressed by the reverence in which the icon was

place her icon in the city of Vladimir and to build a temple (church) and monastery on the place of the vision. (Ever since this time, that icon has been

Intercession icon may be related to the Western Virgin of Mercy image, in which the Virgin spreads wide her cloak to cover and protect a group of kneeling