Description in Icons, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2004, cat. no. 68:
The Crucifixion
From Festival tier of an iconostasis
Middle of 16th century, region of Novgorod
NMI 93

Wood: Linden (Tilia sp.), egg tempera
on canvas. Original panel put into new
one with two splines inlaid from opposite
sides; back painted brown.

Inscriptions a t.: Ink stamp of
the Soviet State Export Committee

PROVENANCE: Olof Aschberg;
Gift of O.Aschberg 1933
EXHIBITION: Gothenburg 1970, no 11; Helsinki
1970, no 11; Stockholm 1973, no 77
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kjellin 1956, no 93; Kjellin
1956, pp 76–77, 206; Felicetti 1972, p 67;
Reuterswärd 1973, pp 95–96; Abel 1998,
pp 13, 15, 54; Moberg 1999, pp 70–72
CONSERVATION: Restored prior to entering
NM: original panel thinned and put into
new one; retouches mainly along original
joints; upper part of cross and inscriptions
reconstructed; painting cleaned; 1959: canvas
and ground secured at corners, blisters
consolidated; 1965: stopping, retouching,
varnishing. Minor ground losses along the
outer edges

This traditional, concise depiction of
the Crucifixion can be compared with
the one from the well-known series of
double-sided icons, the tabletki series,
from St Sofia Cathedral in Novgorod,
and now in the Novgorod Museum of
History and Architecture.1Details
such as the curiously positioned right
foot of the centurion Longinus may
suggest a provincial workshop.

1 Lazarev 1977, fig. XVI.
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