Description

In the last period of the production of wood-carved altarpieces in Epirus, the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th century, belongs the section of the wood-carved altarpiece, lower ketabes. It bears the image of a frontal hierarch under a hypostyle architecture, which is crowned with a series of toxiles (small arches). Its depth is decorated with a meandering acantha, from which dragon heads project in the upper part, which, in addition to being decorative, have an atrocious - talismanic character. The work is rendered in rough exergue relief with the perforated technique, and a naturalistic rendering of the plant decoration.