Russian carved bone icon. The image of the Monks Zosima and Elizabeth.

Russian carved bone icon. Pomeranian works of the first half of the 19th century. The image of the Monks Zosima and Elizabeth. Of rare accuracy and preservation, the image represents the patron saints of the northern land in prayer to the Almighty. It overshadows from the cloudy skies almost three-dimensional carved figures placed on the stunted landscape of the tundra. Beaded belts form the fields of the icon with a fine and delicate carved spiral of plant shoots. Accurate and realistic characteristics of the heroes win over. The everyday realism of Christ and the personified psychologism of the saints. The bone without a single nail is set on thin gilded brass and mounted on a board. Kholmogory, Arkhangelsk region.