Where is this image from?

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Does anyone know this picture, who made it, what year? Where can I find it? Thanks. It looked eastern to me so that’s why I posted it here.
 
I can tell you it is not Eastern as it breaks one of the basic rules of Iconography (at least as I have been told it) of not depicting God the Father.
 
Well I can’t say for certain that it is not eastern, but it most definitely does not look eastern to me. It is my understanding that in traditional eastern iconography, it is not permissible to depict God the Father.
 
I’m don’t think it could be Eastern either. As well a the point about the Father, it just doesn’t look right.
 
Well I can’t say for certain that it is not eastern, but it most definitely does not look eastern to me. It is my understanding that in traditional eastern iconography, it is not permissible to depict God the Father.
Actually, when the Father and the Holy Spirit are depicted as persons, they look just like Christ.

I’ve only seen a couple with the Father but without Christ, and those are of a figure depicted just like Christ, but without the stigmata, and with gray hair and beard instead of brown, sometimes with a crown, and they are fairly modern.

I’ve seen a rare few of the trinity with the Father being graybearded, the Holy Spirit bearless, and Christ beareded but not gray, but the three otherwise identical in appearance.

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**The OP’s isn’t eastern in style because the style is naturalistic. **Eastern Iconography is highly stylized (tho there are several different families of stylization).

Noting it’s from a Russian Cathedral, it still is western in style; Russia has always been prone to ideosyncratic syncretisms, this is yet another example.
 
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