Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker Page - Icons (Commercial/gallery)

Likenesses of Saint Nicholas

Part of the Saint Nicholas Page honoring Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker

Icons

Iconography was in former times an art used exclusively in the religious practices of Orthodox Christians, both in their prayerful and pious creation, and in their veneration. Iconography now includes both religious and nonreligous works. Many icons have passed from the hands of the Church or Orthodox believers into secular hands for use as simple art or for sale. Icons continue to be painted, since neither the art itself nor the need for icons has died. Some of the sites here sell or resell icons, and some simply have pictures of them for display.

Saint Nicholas, as one of the most popular of saints of the family of Eastern Orthodox Christian Churches, is depicted in great numbers of icons.

Saint Nicholas icons for sale - new or previously owned
University or museum icons of Saint Nicholas
Collections or galleries of Saint Nicholas Icons

Commercial or non-profit sites with icons for sale

Orthodox Byzantine Icons, "N-O" category, from the St. Isaac of Syria Skete. You'll see small icons, including:
- Several "plain" icons of Saint Nicholas
- Nicholas - Help of Mariners
- Nicholas Enthroned
- Nicholas with scenes from his life
- Nicholas and Sabbas (from Saint Dionysiou Monastery on Mount Athos)
Click the icons to see closeup views and ordering info. Also find other Nicholases: Saint Nicholas of Japan, Saint (Papa) Nicholas Planas, Tsar-Martyr Nicholas, and one icon of the Neomartyrs Raphael, Nicholas, and Irene
"ComeAndSee" Icons, "Price List N", from Come and See Icons, Books, & Art, East Greenville, PA. A number of icons of Saint Nicholas, including one of Christ, the Theotokos (Virgin Mary), and Saint Nicholas.
Saint Nicholas may be found at the Mounted icons page of Annunciation Press, a supplier of icons, cards and specialty images.
From the Silver Icon site, providing hand-painted reproductions, several icons of Saint Nicholas, beautifully done with silver and silver-plated overlays. Click on the small icons of St. Nicholas for a larger renderings -- and again on the larger ones for even larger views.
From Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Brookline MA (HOCNA):
Saint Nicholas from Monastery Icons, producers of "Windows Into Heaven" icons.

Saint Nicholas, from Valentino Icon Studio
Panorama containing icons of Saint Nicholas. From Temple Gallery, specialists in Russian icons. For many more at this site, enter Nicholas on the search page.

From Handpainted Holy Orthodox Icons by Austin Kachek, hosted by Saints Peter and Paul Orthodox Church, Manville, New Jersey:
- Saint Nicholas(English) Click on Saint Nicholas for larger image (or here)
Near the bottom of this page of clickable thumbnail icons is an image of Saint Nicholas; click on Saint Nicholas or here for a larger view. From the Sacred Presence gallery of Orthodox iconographer Colette M. McHarry
Russian Antiqarian Fair has several pages of icons of Saint Nicholas: N1, N2 and N3. Click the Saint Nicholas link for thumbnails and descriptions. Click the thumbnails for closeup views. This site also has bronze icons, listed under the Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker - other icons page
The Religious Mall has icons of Saint Nicholas found under the Byzantine Icons page. Most sections have icons of our beloved saint.

University or museum sites

From Icons of the Saris Museum at Bardejov:
- SVATY MIKULAS
- Larger version of above.
- Life icon of ST. NICOLAS c.1550-1580
Paul Halsall maintains some Saint Nicholas items:
- Virgin and St. Nicholas
- St. Nicholasfrom the Byzantine Studies Page
- Translation of Saint Nicholas to Bari icon, Greek Anonymous Account, 13th Cent. MS, from The Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Russian Icons - scroll for St. Nicholas. From Central Washington University Virtual Museum
The Ecole Initiative, creating a Hypertext Encyclopedia of Early Church History on the World-Wide Web, has many icon entries for Saint Nicholas. A number of them are already here.

Icon collections or galleries

Novgorod Icon Gallery, Russia, has links to many icons of Saint Nicholas, among others, sorted by date. There are several of Saint Nicholas with other saints, and a number of life icons. The introduction page is worth reading to get a feel for the importance of icons in Russia.
- A single icon of Saint Nicholas from the middle of the XIIIth century.
- Saint Nicola Lipnyy and Saint Nicolas with Deesis from the end of the XIIIth century
- Two Saint Nicholas "life icons" (a main icon surrounded by smaller depictions of scenes from the saint's life)from the beginning of the XIVth century
- Two icons of the saint depicted with other saints, and two life icons, from the end of the XIVth century
ST. NICHOLAS WITH SCENES FROM HIS LIFE, from the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church
From the Russian Icons page of the Liberal Arts College of Auburn University:
- St. Nicholas ( 91k) Pskov School, 15th-16th century.
- St. Nicholas the Miracle Worker. Birth and Childhood. ( 117k) Semeika Borozdin, Stroganov School, 17th century.
- St. Nicholas the Miracle Worker, Detail. Birth and Childhood. ( 91k)Semeika Borozdin, Stroganov School, 17th century.
- St Nicholas with Scenes from his Life. ( 91k)
- St. Nicholas with Scenes from his Life, Detail. ( 57k)
- St Nicholas with Scenes from his Life ( 123k) 14th-15th century.
- St. Nicholas with Scenes from his Life. ( 107k) Moscow School,14th-17th century.
Saint. Nicholas, from Welkya, the Web Magazine for Bulgarian Art and Literature
Saint Nicholas, from the Alvin Lamar Oakes Jr. Collection.

Saint Nicholas from Synth Art. Russian, egg tempura, c. 1600. View a larger version here or a smaller version on the Religious Art page of the site.

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Last modified December 31, 2009, Saint Melania, Nun of Rome