Antique Greek Eastern Orthodox Religious Painted Icon Egg Tempera 3 Saints 1780 Sold 137 cm X 106

137 cm X 106

Many paintings by him appear in museums & galleries in Denmark

New York and began painting at an early age

This is the artist's best known work which was exhibited at the Salon in 1874 and bought by the City of Paris and is now located at the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont

Antique Greek Eastern Orthodox Religious Painted Icon Egg Tempera 3 Saints 1780 Sold 137 cm X 106A good and large, late 18th century, Greek, Eastern Orthodox hand painted & gilded icon of three saints, circa 1780. This traditional Greek Orthodox icon is painted in the Byzantine style, using egg tempera paint on a poplar wood panel. The icon depicts three saints: Saint Charalambos, a bishop and patron saint of healing. Saint Simeon the Stylite to the center, who spent 37 years living atop a column or stylos, he is seen emerging from his pillar.