Portable Images

07.05.2011

Icon with the enthroned Christ and the Crucifixion, mid or second half of the 17th century.

The icon (70X54,5 cm) comes from the cemetery church of the Vatopedi Monastery. On its main face, two related...

07.05.2011

Part of an iconostasis with breastwork figures of apostles, first half of the 17th century.

Part of an icon (87 X 39 cm.) from an epistle of an iconostasis depicting the theme of the Great Prayer. In the surviving part...

07.05.2011

Icon epistle, probably from the marble iconostasis of the catholicon, second half of the 12th century

The iconostasis icon is one of the most important works of the Vatopedi Monastery and an excellent example of painting of the era...

07.05.2011

Icon of Vaioforos from the iconostasis of the chapel of Panagia Paramythia, year 1711

The representation of the Virgin Mary (32X27 cm.) belongs to a series of icons from the Dodekaortos of the iconostasis of the chapel of...

07.05.2011

Portable icon of the Last Supper, second half of the 12th century

The center of the portable icon depicting the Last Supper occupies a semicircular table. At the left end is...

07.05.2011

Introduction to the Post-Byzantine Portable Icons of the Monastery

The numerous post-Byzantine icons of the Vatopedi Monastery offer a representative image of the artistic trends and currents prevalent in the Holy...

07.05.2011

Saint Symeon the Theodosius, first half of the 18th century.

Portable icon (36,5 X 28 cm) from the first half of the 18th century, depicting a bust of Symeon...