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Title of Piece: The Holy Face
Date of Creation: Unknown
Location: Unknown
Brief Description: Media: Egg Tempra and 24kt. gold leaf Written after the image of the face of Christ which miraculoously appeared on a square cloth
Artist Info: Deborah Korluka, Stillwater, MN
Photographer Info: Deborah Korluka, Stillwater, MN

Title of Piece: Saint Nicolas
Date of Creation: unkown
Location: unknow
Brief Description: Egg Tempera Known for his piety, St. Nicholas was a very kindly hearted and generous man. He is famed for his charity because he distributed all his inheritance to the poor. When he gave, however, he strove to do so secretly. A native of Lycia, he became Archbishop of Myra and worked to preserve the Christian faith during the pagan rule of the Roman Emperor Diocletian. He was a participant in the First Ecumenical Council in 325 which proclaimed the Nicean Creed. Several miracles are credited to St. Nicholas.
Artist Info: Deborah Korluka, Stillwater, MN
Photographer Info: Deborah Korluka, Stillwater, MN

Title of Piece: St. George in Battle
Date of Creation: 2005
Location: St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church, West St. Paul, MN
Brief Description: Media: Egg Tempera 11" x 14" St. George gains victory over evil not with his own power but with the help of God and the power of the cross. The icon depicts St. George submitting to this power and so does the horse through him. This is why the horse is often depicted with it's head turned toward the rider. The relationship depicted between St. George and the horse symbolize the act of cooperation, or synergism personifying man responding to salvaton through cooperation with God's grace in living faith, righteous works and rejection of evil. According to the life of the saint he was always known to appear with radiating an indescribable light. This light is represented symbolically by the white color of the horse, which according to the interpretation of St. Dionysius the Areopagite, signifies the greatest possible proximity to the Divine Light.
Artist Info: Deborah Korluka, Stillwater, MN
Photographer Info: Deborah Korluka, Stillwater, MN

Title of Piece: Korsunskaya Mother of God
Date of Creation: The original Korsun was said to have been painted by the Apostle Saint Luke and brought to Kiev from Korsun (Kherson) on the Black Sea by Prince Vladimir in 988.
Location: Kiev
Brief Description: Korsunskaya Mother of God Media: Egg Tempra and 24kt. gold leaf Here Mother and Child are shown in a cheek-to-cheek tender embrace. The infant Christ holds a scroll, symbol of his knowledge and carresses the cheek of his mother assuringly. The intimate love and compassion exhibited between the Mother of God and the child Jesus is depicted exquisitely. Mary's face bespeaks the power of her maternal love; her wide open eyes fixed on infinity and at the same time turned inward. Mary is respresented in her immense compassion towards the suffering, the unavoidable fact of human existence which brings about the Cross
Artist Info: Deborah Korluka, Stillwater, MN
Photographer Info: Deborah Korluka, Stillwater, MN

Title of Piece: Donskoya Mother of God
Date of Creation: Prototype dates from 14th century
Location: Prototype is in the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow
Brief Description: Acrylic and 23kt gold. 21"x27". The prototype of this famous icon is by the iconographer Theophane. The Virgin leads humanity and everyone follows her. The mystery of the Church is expressed in the divine perfection of Christ and in the human perfection of his Mother. The Virgin invites everyone to embrace Christ. The gospel according to Luke states, "Whoever does the will of God is my mother." (Lk 8:19-21) This saying means that everyone is given the grace of giving birth to Christ in his soul, by identifying himself with the Mother of God.
Artist Info: Deborah Korluka, Stillwater, MN
Photographer Info: Deborah Korluka, Stillwater, MN