From the Book of Revelation or Apocalypse; the central image of seated Christ on a blue cloud with gold circlets supported by cherubs, an arch of cherubs represented as fire-creatures above him; surrounded by angels holding the models of the seven churches of Asia, from left to right: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamon, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea, with their names written next to the models and a candlestick before; resting figure of Saint John below, dressed in red himation and green pallium, a monk dressed in long white sticharion and epitrachelion beside him; panel with text from the Book of Revelation above him; mounted in a modern gilt frame with an old label for 'Henry J Murcott' to the reverse.

PROVENANCE:
Acquired in the 1990s or before.
From a deceased London, UK, estate.

Accompanied by an academic report Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

LITERATURE:
On prototypes of this icon see the famous ‘Vision of the Apocalyse’ in the Monastery of Saint John the Theologian at Pathmos, in the so-called Cave of the Apocalypse, painted by Thomas Bathas in 1596 A.D., in Hatzidakis, M. & Drakopoulou, E., Greek painters after the fall (1450-1830, Volume B, Center for Modern Greek Studies E.I.E., 1997, pp.215-218, fig.140.