Greece · Painting; Religious craft; Byzantine heritage
Βυζαντινή Αγιογραφία — Ελληνική Παράδοση Εικόνων
The Byzantine icon painting tradition — the production of Greek Orthodox icons following the specific Byzantine iconographic canon using egg tempera on gold-leafed gessoed wood panel. The Greek αγιογράφος reads the correct egg tempera consistency through a brush-drag-and-lift assessment — loading the tempera brush and dragging a test stroke, then lifting the brush to read the specific thread-and-break that indicates correct yolk-to-pigment-to-water balance.
Risk level: Stable · Not listed; Byzantine icon painting on the Greek and Orthodox world heritage inventory
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