Vintage Hand-painted Icon with Gold Leaf on Wood - Authentic Byzantine Icon of Jesus Christ and the 12 Apostles

This icon is gilded and painted according to the style, traditions and criteria of the best Byzantine icon painting schools, which have a thousand-year history.

- Authentic Byzantine icon depicting Christ the Vine

This icon has a unique religious and aesthetic value. The living representation of Jesus Christ, the giver of life, the only conqueror over death. A beautiful work of art depicting the vine. It depicts Jesus sitting at the top of a branching vine with the open gospel on his knees and the twelve apostles sitting around him on each of the twelve branches. I am the vine, you are the branches.

- Certificate of authenticity on the back of the icon, good condition.

- Provenance: Greece 1960s

- Technique: Tempera with gold on wood

- Size: 27 x 30 cm (10,5x12 inches) and 3 cm (1,2 inches) thick