Antique Greek Orthodox Gilded Hand-painted Egg Tempera Double Sided Icon, 1850 Decorative Arts the Smith Anderson Gallery in

the Smith Anderson Gallery in Palo Alto

This fine painting depicts a Virginian wooded landscape with a river running through it

5 cm X 157

signed & dated 1985

Antique Greek Orthodox Gilded Hand-painted Egg Tempera Double Sided Icon, 1850 Decorative Arts the Smith Anderson Gallery insold Antique 19th Century Greek Gilded Hand painted Egg Tempera, Double Sided Icon, with Cyrillic Text, circa 1850. This extraordinary double sided icon honors four Saints of the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Painted with traditional egg tempera with gilding on a wood panel, and encased in a wooden frame. The icon depicts a pair of saints to both sides, to the front is: Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki on the left and Saint Tryphon of Campsada to the