RELIGIOUS ICON, 18TH C.

"The Cardinal Feast Days with the Complete Resurrection", egg tempera on partial silver ground on wood, 14 3/4" x 11 3/8". Bowed, missing one batten, nail fragments of old embedded nails, edge loss. The Complete Resurrection and descent into Hell at the center. From the top left corner, clockwise: the Birth of the Virgin; the Presentation of the Virgin to the Temple; the Annunciation; the Nativity; the Baptism of Jesus Christ; the Transfiguration; Exaltation of the Holy Cross; (Patriarch Makarios raised the Holy Cross in his two hands. Two Deacons flank him holding his robe. He is flanked by the Emperor Constantine the Great on the right and Empress Helena on the right), in the background is the Basilica of the Resurrection built by Constantine in Jerusalem; The Dormition; The Old Testament Trinity; The Ascension; Entry into Jerusalem; The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. From the Estate of Albert P Neilson