Liturgical wooden carved cross from the collection of the Russian Icon Museum
https://doi.org/10.15829/2686-973X-2020-1-9
Abstract
The paper considers a carved priestly cross of the XIX century from the representative collection of Ethiopian art of the Russian Icon Museum. This is one of the typical Ethiopian crosses with a characteristic rhomboid shape, with the image on the front side of the liturgical procession and the icon of the Mother of God, and ornamented on the back with a braided pattern with cross-shaped ornaments woven into it. The image of the dancing participants of the liturgical procession with drums and sistra represents a unique fusion of different traditions, the influence of the Old Testament tradition was manifested in the symbolic image of tabot.
About the Author
Elena V. Guvakova
Russian Icon Museum; Institute of psychology and psychoanalysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Elena V. Guvakova, head of the Tour Department of the Russian Icon Museum, Member of ICOM, the Association of art historians; teacher of cultural studies at the Institute of psychology and psychoanalysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences; candidate of the Department of Church History of the historical faculty of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
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Guvakova E.V. Liturgical wooden carved cross from the collection of the Russian Icon Museum. Russian Journal of Church History. 2020;1(1):47-56. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.15829/2686-973X-2020-1-9
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