Antique Greek Eastern Orthodox Religious Painted Icon Egg Tempera 3 Saints 1780 Sold this very fine antique painting

this very fine antique painting is ready to hang on your wall

5" in height and weighs 44lbs

they sit before an empty handled feeding bowl

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Antique Greek Eastern Orthodox Religious Painted Icon Egg Tempera 3 Saints 1780 Sold this very fine antique paintingA 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.