Two carved wooden statues of bearded men with a haloes…

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1905

Two carved wooden statues of bearded men with a haloes above their…, 1905

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Two carved wooden statues of bearded men with a haloes above their heads, one holds a set of keys, the other a book — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken between 1905 and 1915.

Subjects: wood carvings, sculpture, religious articles.

Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.