Icon - Annunciation - Wood

Icon “Annunciation” (Evangelismos) with monastery view

• Technique/Material: Tempera on wooden panel
• Representation: at the top Archangel Gabriel (with wings, blessing gesture) and Mary before a prayer desk, Greek inscription „Ο ΑΡΧΑΓΓΕΛΟΣ” (the Archangel) recognizable; below a stylized view of a monastery complex with churches, towers and banners, also with Greek inscription
• Estimated country of origin: Greece – the inscriptions are clearly Greek (not Cyrillic), the monastery view points to a so-called “monastery-view icon”, as they were produced, for example, as pilgrimage/memorial icons from monasteries (e.g., Mount Athos).