The Weifer - Engraved wooden aged image on canvas with golden background - Mount Athos

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Explore The Weifer - Engraved wooden aged image on canvas with golden background - Mount Athos from Christianity Art. Listed under Paintings. Materials: Gold, Wood, Canvas. An old picture made on canvas with gold background on a dug wood. The image is accompanied by a free support base. The Viphorus The most important monasteries of Greece, Meteora, the monasteries of Mount Athos, selected excellent illustrators, great artists, to craft their interior, according to Christian tradition. In the 16th century, hagiographers from the famous School of Crete were invited to create temples with the creation of portable icons and built-in paintings. Among the first hagiographers to respond to the call of the monasteries of Mount Athos, was Theophanes the Cretan, who signed some of the most important icons of the monasteries, real treasures for the Athenian state. His creations proved to be a model for later painters. The icons of Theophanis and his two sons, Simeon and Neophytos and students from Crete, such as George, are walled by the Catholic and the bank of J.M. Crosswords of Mount Athos and other Catholic monasteries. In the Monastery of Stavronikita, the icons that were painted with his signature are fifteen. One of these is Vaiophoros, which is one of the icons that compose the Dodekaorto (the twelve most important celebrations of Orthodoxy).