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Christ Pantocrator

Fedir Senkovych

Basic information

ID: Ж-4808
Author: Fedir Senkovych
Name: Christ Pantocrator
Date of creation: 17th c.
Country: Duchy of Warsaw Kingdom of Poland
Technique: tempera painting carving
Material: wood panel tempera
Dimensions: 85.8 x 66.4 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: icon
Genre: religious
Provenance: Lviv region
Exposition: Olesko Castle

Information about author

Author: Fedir Senkovych
Artist's lifetime: ?–1631
Country: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, now Ukraine
Biography: Fedir Senkovych (? –1631) – Lviv painter, born in the town of Shchyrets, near Lviv. He lived in the suburbs of Krakow and was a member of the brotherhood.The master received his art education thanks to Lavrentii Pylypovych (1575–1610). He fulfilled his orders for the Lviv brotherhood, Lviv goldsmiths shop, and city council. Fedir Senkovych also worked at commissions of the local nobility. He had his own paint shop. Painting by Fedir Senkovych was devoid of drama and dynamism. The artist preferred everything calm, quiet and joyful.

Object description

Pantocrator is one of the iconographic types of images of Christ in the form of the Heavenly King and Judge. Jesus is represented sitting on a baroque throne. He is dressed in a red-cherry chiton and a terracotta hymatium. With his right hand, he is blessing, and with his left hand, he is holding the open Gospel. The face is modeled with white ocher in a planar way. The white spot in the painting is the stand with the Savior's feet standing on it. The icon is characterized by a clear pattern. It comes from the church in the village of Holosko.

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Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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