The Extreme Humility icon preserved in the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki presents the dead Christ half-length above a...
Panel Paintings and Icons
The Apostle Andrew Byzantine icon preserved at the Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos presents the saint as...
El Greco’s Dormition of the Virgin, generally dated shortly before 1567 and often placed around 1565–1566, belongs to the small...
Among surviving examples of Cretan hagiography, few combine technical maturity as clearly as the icon of Christ Pantokrator attributed to...
Saint Maximos Kavsokalyvites, painted by an unidentified artist in the seventeenth century, presents the fourteenth-century Athonite ascetic in a concentrated...
Against a field of gold leaf, worn by centuries of fine craquelure and scattered losses, the crucified body of Christ...
Μια αισθητική ανάλυση στην Εικόνα Εισοδίων της Θεοτόκου του 18ου αι.
A small panel measuring barely fifty-seven by thirty-nine centimetres, painted around 1546 by the Cretan master Theophanes Strelitzas, preserves one...