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The Vladimir Mother of God (after the original)

Mary holds the Christ child close, treasuring in her heart all that the shepherds had made known of the newborn Savior (Luke 2). A tempera icon by the Russian iconographer Andrei Rublev (c. 1408).

The Vladimir Mother of God (after the original) by Andrei Rublev depicting Luke 2:16
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Depicted passages

Luke 2:16-19Primary
Portrait of Andrei Rublev

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).

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