The Mother of God, "Hilandar"

The Mother of God, "Hilandar"The icon of the Mother of God 'Hilandar' venerated in the great Serbian monastery of Hilandar on Mount Athos is depicted in this mounted icon. The Hilandar Monastery, founded in the 12th century by St Sava of Serbia, has been a spiritual home of the Serbian Church for centuries, and its icon of the Theotokos is one of the most venerated on the Holy Mountain. A quality icon from Damascene Gallery.

traditionally associated with the Chersonesus (Korsun) where St Vladimir the Great received baptism in 988 — the event that brought Christianity to Russia

This modern Russian icon of 'Christ the Light of the World' draws on Our Lord's own words: 'I am the light of the world

all-seeing gaze of God

and many others

the great Russian ascetic and wonderworker of Lake Seliger

This mounted icon honors one of the oldest images of the Theotokos venerated in the Russian Church

Tikhon of Moscow

The Byzantine tradition is particularly suited to images of the great desert fathers

The Pantocrator — 'Ruler of All' — is the most fundamental of all Orthodox iconographic types: Christ depicted as sovereign of the cosmos

The Old Believer iconographic school preserved ancient compositional types with extraordinary faithfulness

The icon of the Mother of God 'Hilandar' — venerated in the great Serbian monastery of Hilandar on Mount Athos — is depicted in this mounted icon

This pre-20th-century example in the Novgorod tradition presents the Lord with the characteristic bold simplicity and spiritual directness of that school