Treasures of the Holy Mountain
On view through 30 NovemberExact reproductions of icons kept in the monasteries of Mount Athos, from the Hodegetria of Xenofontos to the great feasts. Each one is gilded by hand.
Exact reproductions of icons from Mount Athos and other monasteries and shrines, gilded by hand. Hand-painted originals, silver reliefs and gallery prints too, delivered insured worldwide.
Featured workEvery hand-painted icon is made to order in our Studio. Choose a work from the gallery and our iconographers will paint it for you.
From the original painted by hand to the gallery print, every icon follows the Byzantine canon.
Exact reproductions of icons kept in the monasteries of Mount Athos, from the Hodegetria of Xenofontos to the great feasts. Each one is gilded by hand.
15 October
An icon of the saint is a meaningful name-day gift.
All feasts of October →Hand-painted icons and museum editions begin as natural wood panels. The gold or silver leaf is laid by hand, sheet by sheet, matte or water-gilded and burnished to a mirror, before the image is painted or reproduced to museum standards.
Browse the collection by subject, the way the iconostasis is read: Christ and the Theotokos first, then the angels, apostles and saints.