Size: 42 x 34 x 4cm. Weight: 1.930 kg
Hand-painted Icon painted in egg tempera on Western Red Cedar with 23 karat gold leaf and silver leaf with sgraffito decoration.
Professional frame of solid wood. (Prototype: St Catherine's Monastery, Mt Sinai, Egypt 12th C.)
Sergius and Bacchus were senior Roman officers in Resafe, Syria, martyred c.303 AD under Diocletian. Sergius was executed and buried at Resafe. Their military-martyr cult grew in the early 5th century as the Byzantine Empire expanded; by c. 527 Emperor Justinian dedicated a major church to them in Constantinople. The icon shows them as horsemen in military dress; during the Crusades St Sergius was often depicted as a Crusader bearing a red cross on a white field.
Size: 42 x 34 x 4cm. Weight: 1.930 kg
Hand-painted Icon painted in egg tempera on Western Red Cedar with 23 karat gold leaf and silver leaf with sgraffito decoration.
Professional frame of solid wood. (Prototype: St Catherine's Monastery, Mt Sinai, Egypt 12th C.)
Sergius and Bacchus were senior Roman officers in Resafe, Syria, martyred c.303 AD under Diocletian. Sergius was executed and buried at Resafe. Their military-martyr cult grew in the early 5th century as the Byzantine Empire expanded; by c. 527 Emperor Justinian dedicated a major church to them in Constantinople. The icon shows them as horsemen in military dress; during the Crusades St Sergius was often depicted as a Crusader bearing a red cross on a white field.
