A Russian Icon of the Great Holy Martyr St. Varvara with Silver Oklad

St. Varvara stands at full length at right in a grassy landscape, her sumptuous garments are finely painted and she holds the Gospels open in her left hand, Christ appears to her at upper left as she gazes upon the bathhouse commissioned by her father, with chased and repoussé silver oklad with anthemion border

losses to the surface of the icon and one small crack near the saint's face; some dents, splits and losses to the oklad, including the rays of the saint's halo
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The bathhouse, built by Varvara's pagan father Dioscorus, was a sign of her faith and source of her martyrdom. Taking advantage of her father's absence during the construction of the luxurious structure, Varvara ordered his workers to add a third window to the two already planned for the building's south side, so that the building would be illuminated by a triune light. When Dioscuros returned and learned that his daughter's new-found faith was the reason for the change in the structure, he had her dragged before the prefect Martinianus, who had her tortured and put to death.