Holy Transfiguration

Holy TransfigurationPainted by Dmitry Shkolnik in the Lavra iconographic tradition, this icon of the Holy Transfiguration brings the bold visual strength and warm palette of the Lavra school to one of the most luminous of all the Lord's feasts. The dazzling light of Tabor, the prostrate apostles, the cloud of glory: all rendered with the compositional grandeur for which the Lavra tradition is celebrated. An Orthodox mounted icon of the Transfiguration of the Lord in the

whose icons are known for spiritual clarity and canonical fidelity

and has formed the prayer of countless Christians across the centuries

This modern Jordanville icon honors the Corinthian martyr with the canonical seriousness of the Russian iconographic tradition

The Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple is depicted in this mounted icon in the Jordanville tradition

Holy is rendered here with the gravity and authority of one who stood in the presence of God and was sent back to speak His word

and the Dionysiou icon is among the most venerated on the Holy Mountain

this icon honors her memory with the reverence and devotional care that all the holy martyrs deserve

Focusing on the Most Holy Theotokos as she receives the angelic greeting

Elizabeth Fyodorovna the Nun-Martyr shines as one of the most beloved saints of the New Martyrs of Russia

one of the great centers of early Russian iconographic art

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The icon of the Entombment of Christ — known in Russian as the Plaschinitsa and in Greek as the Epitaphios — depicts the body of the Lord laid out after the Descent from the Cross