Russia’s revered ‘Trinity’ icon reportedly damaged after climate control system breaks down
Museum staff are checking the icon’s condition after humidity inside its protective case rose to 80%, according to a source familiar with the situation.
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Museum experts warned that moving Andrei Rublev’s fragile Trinity icon to a Russian monastery could destroy it. Three years later, its condition is reportedly critical.
On September 12, Ekho reported that Andrei Rublev’s Trinity, housed for the past three years at the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius rather than in a museum, was in critical condition after its climate-controlled display case broke down. The next day, the Moscow Patriarchate said Tretyakov Gallery staff would examine the icon. Journalist Ksenia Luchenko writes that the Culture Ministry “came down on” the Lavra for concealing the problems with the Tr…
Andrei Rublev Icon Warped After Climate-Control Failure
The prized Russian icon Trinity, painted by Andrei Rublev in the fifteenth-century, has possibly been damaged after the climate-control system in which the work is housed broke down. The icon is currently kept in the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra monastery near Moscow, a Unesco World Heritage site. The work was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church […]
The most valuable religious and artistic treasure of Russia, the icon of the Holy Trinity by Andrei Rubliov, dated to the beginning of the 15th century
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