Russian Hand Painted Icon of the Mother of God - Guide. The icon is hand painted on wood. Condition is good for the age of the item. In this type of icons, the infant Christ sits on the hands of the Virgin and blesses with his right hand, and holds a scroll in his left, which corresponds to the iconographic type of Christ Pantokrator. Hodegitria differs from the close Eleusis image type in the relationship of Mary and the Child: the center of the composition is not boundless love, but God's son Christ, depicted frontally. The Virgin is also depicted frontally. From a dogmatic point of view, the main meaning of this image is the appearance to the world of the "heavenly king and judge" and worship before the son of God. In this particular icon, the Virgin Mary and Jesus are depicted sitting on a throne. Angels are seen on both sides.