Virgin Mary Glylofilousa - Old wooden icon triptych on canvas with golden background - Mount Athos

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Discover Virgin Mary Glylofilousa - Old wooden icon triptych on canvas with golden background - Mount Athos, offered by Christianity Art. Find it in Paintings. Materials: Gold, Wood, Canvas. Images triptych crafted on canvas on wood. On the moving leaves of the triptych are depicted with the same style of the central image, right and left the Archangels Michael and Gabriel. Virgin Mary Glycosherousa One of the most intimate depictions of the Virgin Mary. Cretan hagiographers of the 15th and 16th used to reproduce the image with a more popular version that of Emmanuel Lombardus – a great painter of post-Byzantine icons – who lived in the second half of the 16th century. The original is exhibited at the Benaki Museum.