Apostle Peter. The icon from the wooden Church of the Prophet Elias in Vazentsy pogost on the River Onega. Second half of the XIII or XIV century. State Hermitage Museum. This icon formed part of an old kind of iconostasis with frontal, waist-length depictions of figures in the Deisis Tier (Deisus Chin, Deisis Row).

Apostle Peter. The icon from the wooden Church of the Prophet Elias in Vazentsy pogost on the River Onega. Second half of the XIII or XIV century. State Hermitage Museum. This icon formed part of an old kind of iconostasis with frontal, waist-length depictions of figures in the Deisis Tier (Deisus Chin, Deisis Row).

 

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