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Source Description
In 1436, the two monks (later saints) Zosimus and Sabbatius founded the monastery of Solovki on an island in the White Sea, Northern Russia. This posthumous portrait shows them presenting to the Virgin and Child a detailed model of their foundation. Zosismus also holds a scrolls with the last words he addressed as advice to his monastic brethren from his deathbed.
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Document identity
localId
23687
label
Saints Zosimus and Sabbatius
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
pageCount
2
Source metadata
id
23687
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Saints Zosimus and Sabbatius
description
In 1436, the two monks (later saints) Zosimus and Sabbatius founded the monastery of Solovki on an island in the White Sea, Northern Russia. This posthumous portrait shows them presenting to the Virgin and Child a detailed model of their foundation. Zosismus also holds a scrolls with the last words he addressed as advice to his monastic brethren from his deathbed.
provenance
Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
17th century (Early Modern)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
icons
imageCount
2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
31.2
height
27.3
depth
3.3
dimensionsRaw
H: 12 5/16 x W: 10 3/4 x D: 1 5/16 in. (31.2 x 27.3 x 3.3 cm)
Source extras
cul
Russian
inscriptions
[Transcription] Не скорбите оубо
братия моя
но по семоу разоумѣйте
аще дѣла мо[я] угодна буду[т] п(е)ред [Богом]; [Translation] Do not grieve
my brethren
but understand from this that my works will be pleasing to God.
dynasty
House of Romanov
med
tempera on wood
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6214
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BYZ
exhibition_ids
563
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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d4dde7f6bd0d7b44
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no
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no
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2
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photo
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d6be39a4fe5cdc04
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no
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no