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

Explore The Weifer - Wooden aged image on canvas with golden background - Mount Athos from Christianity Art. Listed under Paintings. Materials: Gold, Wood, Canvas. Image crafted on canvas with painted background on aged natural 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).

Made or sourced as

handmade

Category

Art & collectibles › Wall art › Paintings

Shop location

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Subject

Religious

Medium

Mixed media

Surface

Wood panel

Style

Byzantine

Orientation

Landscape

Width

40 (unit not specified)

Height

30 (unit not specified)

Delivery

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