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| Keywords: Russian - Saints Zosimus and Sabbatius - Walters 371186.jpg In 1436 the two monks later saints Zosimus and Sabbatius founded the monastery of Solovki on an island in the White Sea Northern Russia This posthumous portrait shows them presenting to the Virgin and Child a detailed model of their foundation Zosismus also holds a scrolls with the last words he addressed as advice to his monastic brethren from his deathbed century 17 Early Modern tempera wood cm 31 2 27 3 3 3 accession number 37 1186 23687 Alexandre Polovtsoff Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov Paris by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1930 Translation Do not grieve my brethren but understand from this that my works will be pleasing to God A Millennium of Christianity Russian Art from The Walters Art Gallery The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1988-1989 place of origin Russia Walters Art Museum license 2D Russian art in the Walters Art Museum Religious art in Russia Art of the Russian Orthodox Church Russian icons in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Zosimas and Sabbatius Icons with image of Solovetsky monastery | ||||
