Ivan Fedorov, Moscow
MOTHER OF GOD "MY SOUL MAGNIFIES THE LORD"
Tempera on panel, silver oklad
12 1/2 x 10 in., 32 x 25.5 cm
Private collection
This icon with the Virgin enthroned in an oval reserve holding a book open to the words of the Magnificat in Cyrillic reading "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior," the silver oklad chased and repoussé with Neo-classical ornament, struck with mark of assayer Aleksei Vikhliaev, the Cyrillic initials AOP of an unidentified alderman, and Cyrillic initials IF, possibly for Ivan Fedorov, Moscow, 1797; the halo with seraphim and crown, with maker's marks obscured, Moscow, 1899-1908. More on this icon
Ivan Fyodorov was one of the fathers of Eastern Slavonic printing, he was the first known Russian printer in Moscow and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, he was also a skilled cannon maker and the inventor of a multibarreled mortar. More on Ivan Fedorov
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