St. Venerable Arseny of Novgorod the Wonderworker / Sv. prepodobnyi Arsenii Novhorodskyi Chudotvorets
ID:
5142
Updated:
02.04.2025
Name:
St. Venerable Arseny of Novgorod the Wonderworker / Sv. prepodobnyi Arsenii Novhorodskyi Chudotvorets
Author:
Unknown artist
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
XIX - early XX centuries.
Type:
Ікона
Technique of implementation:
Painting, iconography
Materials:
Wood, oil
Dimensions:
8,8x12 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 1481, КП – 6401
Location of special signs:
On the back of the board
Description:
To the right, in 3/4 of a turn to the left, is the figure of a monk standing on a high river bank. His hands are stretched to the sky, in the left hand he holds a rosary. The old man is dressed in dark brown monastic clothes, with a white halo outline above his head. In the background is the opposite bank with white stone churches and houses. The horizon line is low. The sky is bright blue, lightening downward. In the upper left corner are rays of divine light. At the top right is an inscription: St. Prince Arseny NOVG. CHU. The board is linden. There are scuffs and losses of the paint layer, craquelure and shallow scratches throughout the field of the icon and along the edges of the board. In the image - crossing the right hand of the elder - there is a scratch; on the left, at the top - 1 cm. On the reverse side, the board is cracked, with two nail punctures and two cracks at the top edge.
Circumstances:
It was taken out of the Kherson Art Museum by representatives of the russian federation
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Details of theft
Year of the incident:
2022
Place of the incident:
The Oleksii Shovkunenko Kherson Regional Art Museum
Coordinates (Lat, Lon):
46.62979067231111, 32.609546919505945
Place of last known stay:
Links
Archive links
Description of the incident location
It was opened on May 27, 1978, in the former City Hall building, an architectural monument of the early 20th century. As of 2022 (before the robbery), the museum's collection included more than 13 thousand works of art and was one of the most interesting museum collections in Ukraine. It includes works of Ukrainian and foreign painting, graphics, sculpture, and decorative and applied arts. From October 31 to November 4, 2022, the Kherson Art Museum was looted by the russian occupiers, and more than 10,000 of its most valuable exhibits were stolen. The cargo was sent to Crimea, and the works (all or part of them) ended up in the Simferopol Central Museum of Tavrida. It is unknown whether everything is still there.
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