Virgin Mary Glykophilousa - Sweet Kissing - 100% handpainted wooden icon in canvas with gold background - Mount Athos
Virgin Mary Glykophilousa - Sweet Kissing - 100% handpainted wooden icon in canvas with gold background - Mount Athos
100% hand painted icon crafted in canvas on wood with the traditional method of the Byzantine hagiography with gold background.
Virgin Mary Glykofilousa - Sweet Kissing
It is one of the most familiar depictions of the Virgin Mary. The Cretan painters of the 15th and 16th century, used to reproduce the icon in its most popular version, the one of Emmanuel Lombardos - great painter of post-Byzantine icons - who lived in the second half of the 16th century. The original is exhibited at the Benaki Museum.
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100% hand painted icon crafted in canvas on wood with the traditional method of the Byzantine hagiography with gold background.
Virgin Mary Glykofilousa - Sweet Kissing
It is one of the most familiar depictions of the Virgin Mary. The Cretan painters of the 15th and 16th century, used to reproduce the icon in its most popular version, the one of Emmanuel Lombardos - great painter of post-Byzantine icons - who lived in the second half of the 16th century. The original is exhibited at the Benaki Museum.
