The Virgin of Vatopedi

Origin: Russia. Style of the school of Affon
Age: XIXth century
Composition: Kiot, tsekanka in levkas, details of gold, tempera on Cypress
Measures Cms:77,0 X 61,0 X 10,0
Is in the monastery of Vatopedi in Athos, in the church of the announcement. It was called by this name because close to this monastery, Arcadius, the son of the Emperor Theodosius ?The Great? fell down of a ship and was saved by the intersection of the God’s Mother. He was found near a bush close to the Monastery. In Gratitude the Emperor embellished the Monastery. On January 21 of the year 807 the image turned his face towards the Monastery where the Igumen was. A voice went out of the Icon and said not to open the Monastery to be saved from the pirates.