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The Merry Monks' Mendacious Miracles
The letter О from The Anti-Religious Alphabet
193214 7/8 x 10 5/8 in. (37.8 x 27 cm)
Mikhail Mikhailovich Cheremnykh
Russia (Tomsk, Russia, 1890 - 1962, Moscow, USSR)
Full Title:The letter О from The Anti-Religious Alphabet
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Color lithograph
Credit Line:
Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
2001.20.13
Location: Not currently on view
Portfolio:
The Anti-Religious Alphabet
From a portfolio of 27 prints.
Icons-- images of the Virgin Mary, Christ, or holy saints-- are important devotional objects in Russian Orthodox Christianity. Because believers communicate through them with the divine world, they are sometimes seen as magical. Here, the magic is revealed as the outright trickery of the clergy. Although this image of the Virgin Mary seems to weep genuine tears, in reality a monk is pouring a bucket of water into a vessel attached to the back of the icon.
Icons-- images of the Virgin Mary, Christ, or holy saints-- are important devotional objects in Russian Orthodox Christianity. Because believers communicate through them with the divine world, they are sometimes seen as magical. Here, the magic is revealed as the outright trickery of the clergy. Although this image of the Virgin Mary seems to weep genuine tears, in reality a monk is pouring a bucket of water into a vessel attached to the back of the icon.
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Literacy for Little Comrades: The Anti-Religious Alphabet Memorial Art Gallery 3/26/2004 - 6/18/2004
- Images of Atheism: The Soviet Assault on Religion 5/5/2022 - 10/2/2022
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