49Т. Icon on wood, "Sunday of All Saints," Moldovan school, era of Ieremia Movilă, end of the 16th century-beginning of the 17th century, from the collection of Dr. Ioan Dumitrescu-Popovici, museum piece, returned by the National Museum of Art of Romania, extreme rarity
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49Т. Icon on wood, "Sunday of All Saints," Moldovan school, era of Ieremia Movilă, end of the 16th century-beginning of the 17th century, from the collection of Dr. Ioan Dumitrescu-Popovici, museum piece, returned by the National Museum of Art of Romania, extreme rarity
Starting price:
EUR 5.000
Sold
EUR 18.000
tempera and gold foil on wood, 42.5 x 37 cm
Research information
The icon is reproduced and published in "Art in the Age of Vasile Lupu", by Ana Dobjanshi and Victor Simion, Bucharest, 1979, page 138, images 39 and 40; "Art from Moldova from Stephen the Great to Movilești", published by the National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, 1999, pages 74-75 and "Romanian Icons", by Alexandru Efremov, Bucharest, 2002, page 111. The work is classified in the Treasury category of the Movable National Cultural Heritage, by the order of the Minister of Culture, no. 2532, dated 25.02.2003.
PROVENANCE
Until 1964, the collection of Dr. Ioan Dumitrescu-Popovici; 1964-2025, the heritage of the National Art Museum of Romania; from 2025, the collection of the Dumitrescu-Popovici family heirs.
Festive icon, it is part of a temple ensemble, from the frieze of Holiday icons. The theme "Sunday of All Saints" appears represented from the 16th century. In icon painting, the oldest icon with this theme is dated 1514, painted by the monk Amfilofie and illustrates the prayer addressed to Jesus Emanuel - a symbol of the promise of Salvation. The composition unfolds here on 3 registers, the prayer of the saints being addressed this time to Jesus Patocrator (not Emanuel) the emphasis on the idea of the Last Judgment. Stylistic elements such as the typology of the characters and the emphasized graphics of the painting realized with golden hatches frame the work in the "ambiance of Suceava" and allow us to frame the piece towards the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the next one.
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