A painted wooden icon on an oak or pine panel, depicting a patron god, saint, or household spirit. The panel is hand-planed and mortised into a narrow frame, with the image executed in tempera or oil by a skilled iconographer. Merchants, priests, and wealthy households display such icons in shrines and private chapels; a family may commission one in remembrance of a saint or favor received.
Icon, religious, wood, lg
Hand-painted oak or pine panel depicting saint or patron god in tempera.