Icon - Wood - LA TRINIDAD

Extended Deesis with Christ in Majesty inside a mandorla.

Christ in glory (Pantocrator or “in Majesty”)

Surrounded by a red mandorla (symbol of the divine and the inaccessible)

Accompanied by intercessors and saints

1. Center (main scene):
Christ appears seated on a throne, blessing, with the Gospel.
The oval form (mandorla) indicates his celestial glory and transcendence.

2. Inside the mandorla:
Beside him sit figures (probably apostles or angels), forming a scene of judgment or divine revelation.

3. Outer sides:
On the left: a female figure with a veil → very likely the Virgin Mary.
On the right: a man with a scroll → almost certainly Saint John the Baptist.

This combination forms the classic Deesis (intercession):
Mary and John intercede before Christ for humanity.

4. Upper part:
Multiple heads with nimbus can be distinguished → a chorus of angels or apostles.

Iconographic meaning

This type of icon combines two ideas:

• Christ as judge and king of the universe
• The intercession of Mary and John the Baptist for men

It is, essentially, an image linked to the:
Final Judgment or Second Coming (Parousia)
or a developed form of Byzantine/Russian Deesis

Golden background
Red mandorla
Elongated and austere figures
Slavic-type inscriptions on the scrolls
It is a Russian icon or from the Slavic Orthodox sphere, between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.