THEOPHANES the Cretan
(active 1527-1559)

The Ascension

1546
Egg tempera on wood, 54 x 39 cm
Stavronikita Monastery, Mount Athos

In this icon Theophanes adopts an iconographical type which was a familiar feature of the art of the fifteenth-century Cretan School, particularly the painting of Andreas Ritzos, and which became especially popular in post-Byzantine painting.