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ΑΓΙΑ ΕΙΚΩΝ · EST. TRADITION

Windows into Heaven

Icons written by hand in egg tempera and gold leaf, faithful to the canon handed down from Byzantium.

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Hand-painted icon of Christ Pantocrator on a gold leaf background
Christ Pantocrator · tempera on linden
“What the word transmits through the ear, the icon shows silently through the image.”

— SEVENTH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, 787

The Collections

I

Christ

The Pantocrator, the Mandylion, and the Feasts of the Lord.

II

Theotokos

Hodegetria, Eleousa, and the Mother of God of the Sign.

III

Saints

Patrons, martyrs, and the holy fathers of the Church.

An iconographer's hands laying gold leaf onto a wooden icon panel beside pigments and a candle

The Ancient Craft

  1. The Board

    Seasoned linden, gessoed in a dozen thin layers of chalk and rabbit-skin glue.

  2. The Gold

    Leaf laid on bole and burnished by hand — the uncreated light.

  3. The Tempera

    Earth pigments bound with yolk, built from shadow toward light.

  4. The Blessing

    Each icon is inscribed and offered for blessing before it leaves.

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For your home, your parish, or a loved one’s patron saint — each icon is written to order.

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