UNKNOWN ICON PAINTER, Greek
(active in 12th century)

Transfiguration

12th century
Egg tempera on panel, 23 x 24 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

This icon was part of the epithelium, a horizontal board depicting the great Christian feasts that came above the local tier in an iconostasis. Other fragments of the same, sawn up epithelium are in the Byzantine Museum in Athens and the Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos.




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