Orthodox Icons

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[Kazimiera]

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Cretan School describes an important school of icon painting, which flourished while Crete was under Venetian rule during the late Middle Ages, reaching its climax after the Fall of Constantinople, becoming the central force in Greek painting during the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries.




Nikolaos Zafouris, c. 1490s


El Greco, Dormition of the Virgin (before 1567)


Triptych designed by Georgios Klontzas.


Decapitation of St. Paraskevi


Icon painted by Emmanuel Tzanes (Paul and Alexandra Kanellopoulos Museum, Athens).

[ABest]

Theotokos of Vladimir.

[Annihilus]

I am not talking about the icons self, but what they depict.

Here I clearly see a woman king



I believe Mary is worshiped a lot in South America because it would be more be similar with their previous believes or not?

[Pontios]

Greatest Saint in Orthodoxy, St. George.



St. Dimitrios.



Both of these Great Saints were warriors.

[Pontios]

St. Nektarios.
A not very old Saint that some people who are alive today have known and seen him before he passed away.

[Lena]

The Monastery of Chilandar