Ex Voto: Peasant praying to Our Lady of Compassion
Ex Voto: Peasant praying to Our Lady of Compassion
Response Icon (peasant awaiting a response) from the Lord’s Mother of Kasan, hand-painted according to a 19th century Podlinnik (pattern) from Northern Russia, on old wood using prescribed ancient methods and colors developed by monks and artists from Byzantine, the Balkans and Old Russia - Riza from circa 1880