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Wednesday, 01 September 2010
Sacred Faces: Icons in Oxford
Icons are used in the Eastern Orthodox Church to focus worshippers' prayers. Their form and function have hardly changed over the last fifteen centuries and their spiritual message is retained even in a museum setting. In this exciting new exhibition at the Christ Church Picture Gallery, Greek and Russian icons taken from the University’s collections will go on public display until December 2010.
Among them are a 'St George and the Dragon' from around 1500, which has just been cleaned and restored to its former splendour, and two Ashmolean fragments from a large 'Last Judgement', which are certainly the most important Russian icons preserved in Oxford. Further works, given to Christ Church in 1980 by C. R. Patterson, provide an overview of Russian religious art in the imperial period.
The exhibiton runs until Wednesday 22 December 2010. For more information, please visit the Christ Church Picture Gallery website.
