COLLECTIONS / Icons and Wood-Carvings
The Museum's Byzantine and Post-Byzantine icons constitute one of its largest and most important collections. The collection stands out not just by the exceptionally large number of works it contains - ca 3,000 - but also by the wide range of iconographies it covers across the chronological spectrum of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine art, which moreover come from all over Greece, Asia Minor, the Balkans and Russia.
There are also 250 diptychs and triptychs in the collection, dating from the 15th to the 19th century. These artefacts were for the most part works of private devotion.
Some woodcarvings, such as three carved wooden sanctuary iconostases from churches in the Ionian Islands and Northern Greece, episcopal thrones, etc. complete the collection.
Gallery View
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The Raising of Lazarus
The icon dates from the 12th century and was once belonged to a templon from a church on Mount Athos. Another part of the sam...
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Theotokos Glykophilousa and Cross
On the main side there is the depiction of Theotokos Glykophilousa while on the back cross and monograms are depicted in redd...
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Theotokos Glykophilousa (“Episkepsis”)
This particular type of the Virgin, in which the two faces are touching, cheek to cheek, is known as the Glykophilousa. This ...
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Christ Pantokrator and Cross in leaf
This despotic panel icon from the templon has a notch on the bottom edge by which it was attached to a pole for use in proces...
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The three Hierarchs
The icon had been covered by another depiction of the Three Hierarchs in the post-Byzantine years. The two layers of painting...
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Double-sided icon with the Crucifixion and St. Nicholas
Double-sided icon with St. Nicholas and the Crucifixion. From unknown Church of Veroia. Dated in the 15th century.
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Double-sided icon with the Crucifixion and the Virgin Hodegetria
The icon, which is the oldest in the museum, has three different layers of painting on the front. From the earliest, dating f...
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Virgin Orans
The Virgin is depicted in a standing posture, her hands raised in supplication while the right leg turned slightly outward. F...
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The Apostles Peter and Paul
Between the two apostles there is a cross with a depiction of The Akra Tapeinosis (Man of Sorrows).This image is associated w...
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Virgin surrounded by scenes of the Twelve Great Feasts (obverse) and The Preparation of the Throne(reverse)
This 14th century bilateral icon was carried as a processional icon, as can be intimated from the two square notches at the b...
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Crucifixion
In a golden background, outside the walls of Jerusalem a crowded Crucificion is depicted. The scene is characterized by inten...
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The Nativity of Christ
The icon combines the scene of the birth of Christ with the scene of the announcement Nativity's joyful message to the sheper...
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St George and scenes from his life and saints
St George and scenes from his life
St George and scenes from his life
The central figure of St George the Cappadocian on the front is in relief, and scenes from his life are painted in panels aro...
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Virgin Hodegetria
The unusual iconographic features suggest that the icon executed in a Cypriot workshop, at the early 13th c.
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Virgin Hodegetria
The icon is covered in an elaborate metal revetment of the 14th century. It was bought by the byzantine & Christian Museum in...
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Archangel Michael
Ο ΑΡΧ(ΩΝ) ΜΙΧΑΗΛ Ο ΜΕΓΑC ΤΑΞΙΑΡΧΗ(C) (the Chief [among angels] Michael Grand Taxiarch) is depicted in a formal, frontal pose....
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Crucifixion
Double-sided icon: Side A: Crucifixion, Side B: Virgin and Child. The nobility and restrained sorrow characteristic of the sl...
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Saint George
This 14th century icon was brought to Greece by refugees from Asia Minor.
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The Hospitality of Abraham
The Hospitality of Abraham. Α biblical theme symbolizing the Holy Trinity. The icon is dated in the 15th c. The figures are n...
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The Dormition of Saint Ephraim the Syrian
The Dormition of Saint Ephraim the Syrian that lived in the 4th c. Portable icon painted by a mid-15th c. Cretan artist. An i...
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Saint Marina
Icon that must have been created in Crete, in the late 14th c. or early 15th c., by an artist closely associated with worksho...
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Jesus Hominum Salvator
Depictions of the Crucifixion, the Resurrection and the Descent into Hell are combined in the initials of the abbreviated Lat...
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Virgin Madre della Consolazione with Saint Francis
The composition follows Italian motifs and was created in the largest post-Byzantine centre of icon production, in Chandax (H...
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St John the Baptist
The saint is depicted in a stony desert, winged and conversing with Christ, who is shown blessing. At the bottom right the sa...
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