Wonderful Antique Russian Icon Painting on Tin, Saint Nicholas and Saint Michael handprinted trasferire cup Just the perfect amount of

Just the perfect amount of non-linearity to that door and those windows and chimneys

pointing to his name

and with some large shooters mixed in here and there

Perhaps this one was done in a school art class

Miles and Sarah

Wonderful Antique Russian Icon Painting on Tin, Saint Nicholas and Saint Michael handprinted trasferire cup Just the perfect amount ofI've always got an eye out for religious icon paintings on tin, but rarely come across one I love as much as this large one, which is Russian (though much faded, there is painted Russian text in white above each figure) and depicts St. Nicholas at left and St. Michael at right. Saint Nicholas of Bari patron saint of children, sailors, and travelers (and the prototype of Father Christmas) is especially popular in Eastern Orthodox icons, most often