Icon - Hand painted icon with the Crucifixion of Jesus - Wood

Hand drawn icon with the crucifixion of Jesus.

In the images of ancient icons, the crucifixion is conveyed discreetly, since nothing can express what is happening! Therefore, the icon painter resorts to the strict, laconic and conditional language of symbols. The icon is only a symbolic representation of Christ's Divine Sacrifice, whose universal essence is incomprehensible and unimaginable.

The imaginary space is recreated through the background of the icon. In it, the cross with the crucified God-man rises from the ground to the sky - like a bridge connecting the earthly and heavenly kingdoms. Because only the Crucifixion can raise man from his vain life to experience eternity. The Savior seems to embrace the world with his hands on the cross.

Right next to the cross is the Holy Mother of God with her hands raised to chest height. Also full-length, head bowed, is St. John the Theologian, the disciple whom Jesus commissioned to care for His mother. Women are also depicted, as well as the Roman soldier Longinus with his hand raised high. Behind them are the walls of Jerusalem.