Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker Page

Likenesses of Saint Nicholas

Part of the Saint Nicholas Page honoring Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker

Other icons

"Icon" normally means a painted image on a flat panel or wall, or a mosaic, used as part of Christian reverential practice, but depictions of Saint Nicholas show up in a great variety of other media as well:

Bottle Icons
Banners
Clerical vestments
Non-Iconic Paintings
Frescoes
Stone carvings
Statuary
Woodcuts
Bronze
Stained Glass
Lacquer Boxes

See also the painted icons pages for Saint Nicholas icons in churches or icons at commercial or gallery/museum sites.

Icons on bottles

In the city of Bari, Italy, where a portion of the relics of Saint Nicholas now repose, there has grown up a unique genre of icons -- painted on bottles that contain holy myrrh, also called manna, that collects on the relics.

icon bottle and explanation. From the Non-Stop New York Joy site.
Several Manna bottles from the Saint Nicholas Center collection.

Banners

Orthodox Churches often have banners with icons on them hanging on the walls or displayed on poles.

Copied from The Auctioneers, an auction site, before it disappeared:
Russian Orthodox icon circa 1860. Two-sided icon. One side features St. Nicholas. The other side features the baptism of Jesus. Previously authenticated for 1860's or earlier. Was hanging in a church in Sitka, then was moved to church in Tanana Valley. Images were created by oil. The red material is a satin with gold embroidery. Museum-quality.
A small image of a banner of Saint Nicholas is found at the top left of the home page of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, St. Louis Missouri.

Frescoes

Frescoes (paintings made upon wet plaster) have been used in many Orthodox Churches. Frescoes of Saint Nicholas encountered so far:

4th Century Church of St. Nicholas (in Myra, Turkey)
Saint Nicholas on the Kosovo Heritage page. About halfway down this page is the Apsidal fresco, Church of the Mother of God, Pec Monastery, Kosovo, c 1335. Lower section: Hierarchs, including St. Nicholas of Myra. From Saga of Kosovo site.

Paintings

Non-icon paintings are interesting, but do not fit in the life and practice of Orthodox Christianity. Some paintings that depict Saint Nicholas:

Visit the search page of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Enter "Saint Nicholas" into the search window. Links to several 15th-16th century paintings appear. Click on them to enlarge.
Saint Nicholas of Myra text, paintings
Saint Nicholas by Christina Saj (Picassoesque)
Saint Nicholas at the Web Gallery of Art. The Web Gallery of Art presents 3500+ digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1200 and 1700. Searches, separately at the Web Gallery's search page, by both title and text for Nicholas will turn up numerous paintings featuring Saint Nicholas (along with some other Nicholases).
Scroll down to view three paintings of Saint Nicholas -
- Vocation of St. Nicholas
- St. Nicholas saves the ship
- St. Nicholas meets the emperor's messenger.
- from Christus Rex et Redemptor Mundi, a private non-profit Roman Catholic organization.

Vestments

Vestments, garments worn by the clergy during services

Scroll down to vestment containing St. Nicholas at the Museum of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

Lacquer Boxes

An icon of St. Nicholas hand-painted in Russia on a box,

Statuary

Statues of saints are little used within Orthodox Christianity. Several photos of a statue at the Church of Saint Nicholas in Demre, Turkey (ancient Myra in Lycia), the original place of ministry and burial place of Saint Nicholas (though this statue was added in the 19th century during a restoration attempt on the site):

Myra with statue of St. Nicholas
A page of Images of St. Nikolaus as an icon, his relics, the reconstruction of his church. From GERMAN AMERICANA page of Robert Shea
Church and statue of Saint Nicholas, Demre, Turkey
Statue of Saint Nicholas, front view.
Saint Nicholas

Other pictures and history of the Demre/Myra area may be found in the Turkey section of the Saint Nicholas pages.

Stone Carvings

Saint Nicholas in stone.
Scenes from San Nicola Church, Bari, Italy. Includes different view of the stone carving above. Click on the small pictures for larger renderings. The picture over the doorway of the church is likely an icon of Saint Nicholas. From Gelao Gennaro's pages.