Antique Greek Eastern Orthodox Religious Painted Icon Egg Tempera 3 Saints 1780 Paintings polished agates etc

polished agates etc

resting on a dark variegated marble plinth

"A Warning Against Venereal Disease"

circa early 1700s

Antique Greek Eastern Orthodox Religious Painted Icon Egg Tempera 3 Saints 1780 Paintings polished agates etcA 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.