Society and church: “Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker. Famous all over the world” Exhibition held in Omsk

9 December 2011, in the M. A. Vrubel Regional Museum of Visual Arts, Omsk opened the “Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker. Famous all over the world” exhibition. Icons and copper-founding plates of the 18th – 19th centuries from the collections of the M. A. Vrubel Museum”.

The exhibition is devoted to a great saint of the Christian world – Nicholas the Wonderworker. It features over 40 pictorial and Old Believers’ copper-founding plates depicting Nicholas the Wonderworker from the Museum’s collections. The visitor is offered rare iconographic types: images of the saint in full length – “Nikola Mozhaisky” (tempera, 19th century), “Nikola Mozhaisky and John Chrysostom” (tempera, 19th century), “Nikola with saints Paraskeva and Tikhon” (copper alloy, cast, 19th century); numerous half-length compositions – a copy of the wonder-working image of “Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker” from the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, as well as the images depicting just the face and shoulders of the saint – “Nikola Otvratny” (tempera, 19th century), “Nikola Klyuchegorsky” (tempera, 19th century). The particularity of the exhibition is that the icons come from different places and represent various artistic centers (Ural, Nevyansk, Siberia, Suzun, Moscow, St. Petersburg) and the main stylistic trends of the icon painting: from the Old Believers’ canonic art to church and academic manner.