The exhibition "Images of Orthodox saints in modern iconography" opens at the Campanile of Church of the Epiphany

Since April 16, the exhibition "Images of Orthodox saints in modern iconography "   begins  its work    at  the Campanile Epiphany Church.   It presents a variety of icon painting works created by artist’s  studio of  Ilgiz Khanov (Moscow).

The exhibition is interesting and diverse in its iconographic content. It gives an idea about the diversity and specificity of images of saints in Russian iconography, speaks  about the history of the formation of iconographic types. The exhibition includes works.  displaying multiple personalities of  saints: Holy Doors evangelists, prophets and patriarchs, the apostles Peter and Paul , Nicholas the Wonderworker . Artists are turning to the ancient image  versions  of the Blessed Virgin: to the miraculous icon of Our Lady of Iver and Peter's. Part of the icons for the iconostasis of  Bryansk and Bugul'my  churches  is painted. All the icons are made in accordance with the canons and traditions of the various schools of Russian icon painting.

Khanov  Ilgiz Masnavievich born March 12, 1948,  in  Kazan , in the village of Old Arakchino.  In 1976,  he graduated from the Moscow  Graduate School of Industrial Art ( former Stroganov ). For more than 30 years of work  in   iconography Ilgiz Khans and artists of his workshop  painted  a few hundred icons (more than 50 iconostasis ) for many churches, cathedrals and monasteries of the Russian Orthodox Church , located across Russia - from Kamchatka to Pskov and the Solovetsky Monastery.  Ilgiz   Khanov,   one of the first khans, having   participated in the restoration of the  Peter and Paul Cathedral of Kazan, performed several large-scale works for the Cathedral of the Annunciation in Kazan Kremlin.

Belfry Church of the Epiphany, where  presented exhibition is deployed ,  built in 1895-1897,  by architect Mikhail Dmitrievich Mikhailov. Funds for its construction were donated by the widow of a merchant Ivan S. Krivonosov – Ekaterina Alexandrovna. In 1902, on the second floor of the bell tower,  a temple was dedicated in honor of the Finding of the Head of St. John the Baptist.

December 21, 2013 a document was signed on the joint use of the Kazan diocese and the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan of  Belfry Church of the Epiphany. January 20, 2014,  Managing  Tatarstan archdiocese Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan Anastasius made ​​minor consecration of the temple. In the Belfry,   Sundays and public worship are held.

The exhibition  opens  on April 16 at 15.00.

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