The Mother of God of the Don (alternate)
Mary cradles the Christ child cheek to cheek in the icon called the Mother of God of the Don, echoing the days she treasured the shepherds' words and pondered them in her heart (Luke 2). A tempera icon by the Byzantine iconographer Theophanes the Greek.
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About Theophanes the Greek
1340-1410 · Byzantine Greek (worked in Russia)
Theophanes the Greek was a Byzantine-trained icon painter and muralist who worked in Constantinople, Novgorod, and Moscow. Among his surviving works are the frescoes at the Church of the Transfiguration on Ilyin Street (Novgorod, 1378) and icons of the Deësis tier at the Annunciation Cathedral in Moscow.