Size: 42 x 29 x 2cm. Weight: 1.390 kg
Hand-painted holy Icon in egg tempera painting and 23 karat gold leaf, with gold assist on Western Red Cedar . (Prototype: Cretan workshop, 16th c. Greece).
The Mother of God "of Perpetual Help" (West) — "of the Passion" (East) — is rich in symbolism and widely venerated in Orthodox and Roman Catholic homes. Traditionally attributed to St. Luke, the icon shows the boy Jesus playing when Archangels Michael and Gabriel appear, bearing the instruments of His future suffering: a three-bar cross, a spear, and a sponge. Fearful, Jesus leaps into His mother's arms—so quickly one shoe falls off—and clutches her hand with both hands, looking up at an angel who still holds the instruments of the Passion He already knows await Him.
Size: 42 x 29 x 2cm. Weight: 1.390 kg
Hand-painted holy Icon in egg tempera painting and 23 karat gold leaf, with gold assist on Western Red Cedar . (Prototype: Cretan workshop, 16th c. Greece).
The Mother of God "of Perpetual Help" (West) — "of the Passion" (East) — is rich in symbolism and widely venerated in Orthodox and Roman Catholic homes. Traditionally attributed to St. Luke, the icon shows the boy Jesus playing when Archangels Michael and Gabriel appear, bearing the instruments of His future suffering: a three-bar cross, a spear, and a sponge. Fearful, Jesus leaps into His mother's arms—so quickly one shoe falls off—and clutches her hand with both hands, looking up at an angel who still holds the instruments of the Passion He already knows await Him.
