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Virgin Madre della Consolazione with Saint Francis
Icons and Wood-Carvings The composition follows Italian motifs and was created in the largest post-Byzantine centre of icon production, in Chandax (H...100% -
The Lamentation
Icons and Wood-Carvings BXM 1560 The Lamentation. This icon is signed by the Cretan artist Emmanuel Lambardos. It reproduces an iconographic type tha...100% -
The Hospitality of Abraham
Icons and Wood-Carvings The Hospitality of Abraham. Α biblical theme symbolizing the Holy Trinity. The icon is dated in the 15th c. The figures are n...100% -
Theotokos Glykophilousa (“Episkepsis”)
Icons and Wood-Carvings This particular type of the Virgin, in which the two faces are touching, cheek to cheek, is known as the Glykophilousa. This ...100% -
Crucifixion
Icons and Wood-Carvings In a golden background, outside the walls of Jerusalem a crowded Crucificion is depicted. The scene is characterized by inten...100% -
Saint Catherine
Icons and Wood-Carvings Icon with St Catherine. Painted by the Cretan artist Viktor. Second half of the 17th c.100% -
Saint Anna and scenes from the Life of the Virgin.
Icons and Wood-Carvings A walled garden with a fountain, trees and plants. Detail from the prayer of Saint Anna, the mother of the Virgin in a portab...100% -
Virgin Glykophilousa
Icons and Wood-Carvings This portable icon depicts the Virgin Glykophilousa-Kardiotissa. According to its stylistic elements, that strongly remind th...100% -
A miracle by Saint Spyridon
Icons and Wood-Carvings At the upper right, the saint appears through clouds to bless, while a galley, with folded sails and a red flag, sails into r...100% -
St John the Theologian writing the Book of Revelation
Icons and Wood-Carvings Saint John the Theologian, writing the book of Revelation. In the back the city of Patmos, built by the sea.100%