Eastern Europe, Russia, ca. 19th century CE. Finely delineated in egg tempera and gesso on wood, an icon depicting the miracle-working St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, the most widely revered saint in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, fitted with a beautiful, gilded silver oklad. Believed to possess special powers to protect the faithful, this archetypal Bishop and Saint is dressed in sumptuous episcopal vestments, with a cross adorned omophorion,
