The Byzantine icon of Saint Nicholas preserved at Hilandar Monastery on Mount Athos presents the bishop of Myra in a...
Panel Paintings and Icons
Saint Maximos Kavsokalyvites, painted by an unidentified artist in the seventeenth century, presents the fourteenth-century Athonite ascetic in a concentrated...
The Extreme Humility icon preserved in the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki presents the dead Christ half-length above a...
The Holy Mandylion Byzantine icon preserved at Saint Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai survives in an unusual form: two narrow...
The Apostle Andrew Byzantine icon preserved at the Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos presents the saint as...
Measuring only about 46.4 × 25.5 cm, the Sinai Crucifixion Icon preserves one of the most consequential early formulations of...
Among the monumental panel icons of Late Byzantine Thessaloniki, the Christ the Wisdom of God icon occupies an unusual position....
Emmanuel Tzanes painted The Tree of Jesse in 1644, creating a large Post-Byzantine panel icon in tempera on wood, approximately...
El Greco’s Dormition of the Virgin, generally dated shortly before 1567 and often placed around 1565–1566, belongs to the small...
Signed by Emmanuel Lambardos and dated 1603, the Noli me Tangere now preserved in the Museum of Icons of the...
Η Ένθρονη Βρεφοκρατούσα Θεοτόκος "Κυρία των Αγγέλων" της Κέρκυρας αποτελεί εξαιρετικό δείγμα της μεταβυζαντινής τέχνης των αρχών του 16ου αιώνα.
A small panel measuring barely fifty-seven by thirty-nine centimetres, painted around 1546 by the Cretan master Theophanes Strelitzas, preserves one...