Rare Icon Prototypes Reveal Untold Stories of Russia's Old Believers
The Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts has a collection of icon graphic prototypes from the studio of Trephily Filatov. The collection includes scenes commonly found in Old Believers' icon painting. Similar compositions were found in Ural Old Believers' icon painting. The icon graphic prototypes show stylistic features of Nevyansk icon painting. The researchers also studied filigree paper in the collection.