Sv.Apostol John the Evangelist

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Sv.Apostol John the Evangelist.
1680-ies. Royal Iconographers Armory, Gury Nikitin?.

Apostle and Evangelist John, called the Theologian, was the son of a fisherman of Galilee, Zebedee and Salome. John was the first disciple of the prophet John the Baptist. After hearing his testimony of Christ as the Lamb of God taking on the sins of the world, he and Andrew followed his Savior. Permanent disciple of the Lord he did, however, somewhat later, after the miraculous catch of fish at Gennesaret (Galilee), the lake, when the Lord Himself called him along with his brother Jacob. Flame loves the Lord, John was full of indignation against those who are hostile to God, or shunned him. So he forbid someone not hodivshemu with Christ, cast out demons, the name of Jesus Christ, and asked the Lord permission to cast fire upon the inhabitants of a village of the Samaritans, because they did not receive him when he traveled to Jerusalem through Samaria. For this he and his brother James were called the Lord "sons of thunder". Feeling the love of Christ to himself, but not yet enlightened by the grace of the Holy Spirit, he decides to ask yourself, along with his brother James, the place next to the Lord in His coming kingdom, in response to a prediction of the gets what awaits them both a cup of suffering. After the Ascension of the Lord, we often see the apostle John, along with the Apostle Peter. Along with him, he is considered a pillar of the Church and for the most part resides in Jerusalem. Faithful to the will of the Lord, he took care of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as the most devoted son, and only after her blissful Assumption began to preach in other countries. St. John the Theologian, died of natural causes (the only one of the apostles), being about 105 years, in the reign of Emperor Trajan. The circumstances of the death of the Apostle John were unusual and even mysterious. At the insistence of the Apostle John to bury the dead. The next day, when excavated tomb of the apostle, it was empty. This event is both to confirm the assumption of some Christians that the Apostle John did not die but will live up to the Second Coming of Christ and rebuke the Antichrist.

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This icon (drink) may be part of a large temple icons depicting the Crucifixion of Christ, where the upcoming depicted a young disciple of Christ, the Apostle John on the icon to the left of the Crucifixion (on the right of the audience). Image of the Apostle John the Theologian waist-front, in a light turn right. Face of St. turn right at three-quarters. John presented a very young man with a round, youthful face, curly brown hair. He wore a bright turquoise shirt with pink-ocher collar. Over the shirt draped over a light pink coat with zaponoy in the form of a flower on her shoulder. Apparel written freely broad afloat at the same time face carefully registered with the transmission of light and shade, subtle mental state meekness saint. Vohrenie face pale ocher and olive sankiryu with podrumyankoy. Meekness St. underlined and gesture of his left hand, which pressed against his chest.
           Highly professional letter faces characteristic of icon Armory second half of XVII century. Masters of the Armory, and, above all, Simon Ushakov, updated their artistic techniques after the reforms of Patriarch Nikon. Faces in their icons - rounded, their volume is transferred with the help of light and shade, construction copied from Western prints. Russian iconography second half of XVII century. - A cultural phenomenon of the Late Middle Ages, the same order as the so-called Post-Byzantine painting. And here and there remains a convention of painter, and some tricks of the "new" painting - from a Nordic from Russian masters of Italian artists in the so-called Italo-Cretan school - are the only quotations, only nuances in the late medieval iconography. Iconic style masters Armory existed since the second half of XVII century to the 30-s of the XVIII century. Its echoes are seen in the first Russian portraits are very reminiscent of icons. Despite the reforms of Tsar Peter I pa turn XVII-XVIII centuries., Many Russian icon painters were still continuing to work in this style. Looking at the image of the saint, in the color of the icon (a combination of turquoise and pink), we remember not only the icon painters of the Armory, but also the fresco painting of Yaroslavl and Kostroma - one of the brightest and the best examples of monumental painting of the XVII century. Moreover, many of Kostroma and Yaroslavl icon painters worked in the Armory - Gury Nikitin, Simon Holmogorec, brothers Ivan and Fedor Karpov, Dmitry Grigoriev, etc.
Nimbus saint - double (gold and silver, which gives the white gold color characteristic of the icons of XVII-XVIII centuries). Background light turquoise, dark-green fields. At the top of the remains dark tempera inscription: IOAN st. The icon was used by the Old Believers in the XIX century (in 1870) as the basis for a new icon of "Holidays with selected images of the Virgin", with the image of St. Ap. John flipped 180 degrees. Apparently, because of the dark varnish already in the XIX century was not seen the original image XVII century. Icon uncovered by restorers in Yaroslavl on the records of the XIX century, the same was removed old linseed oil XVII century. Below left are two hallmarks of the icon of the icon of the XIX century: The Nativity of the Virgin and St. Theodore Theotokos.
Velvet, gesso, egg tempera.
Bulletin lime. 35,5 õ31 see

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