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The Entry into Jerusalem

Christ rides into Jerusalem on a young donkey as the crowds spread their garments and branches and cry Hosanna (Matthew 21). A tempera icon by the Russian iconographer Andrei Rublev.

The Entry into Jerusalem by Andrei Rublev depicting Matthew 21:1
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About Andrei Rublev

1360-1430 · Russian

Andrei Rublev was a medieval Russian iconographer canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church. Surviving works attributed to him include the Hospitality of Abraham (the icon often called the "Old Testament Trinity") and the festal tier of the Annunciation Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin (c. 1405).