A dense field of golden haloes gives the All Saints of Mount Athos icon its immediate visual character. Painted by...
The Michael and Gabriel icon preserved in the Church of the Panagia Kapnikarea in Athens presents a composition whose first...
Emmanuel Tzanes‘s icon of Saint Govdelaas, painted in 1655, presents the Persian great martyr as a youthful military saint of...
The wall painting of Saint Agathangelos of Esphigmenou in the katholikon of Esphigmenou Monastery presents the monastic martyr as a...
Painted in 1820 in the liti of the kyriakon of Kavsokalyvia Skete on Mount Athos, the image of Saint Maximos...
A kneeling figure with a thin gold-rimmed halo bends over a raised basin, both hands wrapped around the foot of...
The Deposition of Christ icon scene belongs to a larger panel of the Virgin and Child enthroned in the Benaki...
The Saint Theodosios of Trebizond fresco belongs to the painted decoration completed in 1765 for the exonarthex of the katholikon...
Saint George, the Post-Byzantine wall painting from Panagia Pelekiti Monastery, presents the military martyr as a full-length, frontal figure, standing...
Emmanuel Tzanes painted The Tree of Jesse in 1644, creating a large Post-Byzantine panel icon in tempera on wood, approximately...
Among surviving examples of Cretan hagiography, few combine technical maturity as clearly as the icon of Christ Pantokrator attributed to...