Liturgical wooden carved cross from the collection of the Russian Icon Museum
The paper considers a carved priestly cross of the XIX century from the representative collection of Ethiopian art of the Russian Icon Museum. This is one of the typical Ethiopian crosses with a characteristic rhomboid shape, with the image on the front side of the liturgical procession and the icon...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Russian |
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Silicea-Poligraf LLC
2020-03-01
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| Series: | Российский журнал истории Церкви |
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| Online Access: | https://churchhistory.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/9 |
| Summary: | The paper considers a carved priestly cross of the XIX century from the representative collection of Ethiopian art of the Russian Icon Museum. This is one of the typical Ethiopian crosses with a characteristic rhomboid shape, with the image on the front side of the liturgical procession and the icon of the Mother of God, and ornamented on the back with a braided pattern with cross-shaped ornaments woven into it. The image of the dancing participants of the liturgical procession with drums and sistra represents a unique fusion of different traditions, the influence of the Old Testament tradition was manifested in the symbolic image of tabot. |
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| ISSN: | 2686-973X 2687-069X |