Lot 91 - ANTIQUE 18TH C RUSSIAN ICON CHRIST THE GOOD SHEPHERD

An antique 18th-century Russian Orthodox icon of Jesus Christ in the Good Shepherd iconography. Mixed media painting: egg tempera, gesso, and levkas on canvas. Framed. The image of the Good Shepherd is the most common of the symbolic representations of Christ found in early Christian art in the Catacombs of Rome. The form of the image showing a young man carrying a lamb around his neck was directly borrowed from the much older pagan kriophoros. The image continued to be used in the centuries after Christianity was legalized in 313. Russian Christian Religious Items and Collectibles.