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| LATE BYZANTINE ENGRAVED BRONZE ICON OF ST. MALEINOS The saint is depicted as a bishop wearing vestments, holding a cross, standing under an arch. Michael Maleinos came from a well-to-do and influential family from Cappadocia and grew up at the court of Leo the Wise. Already at the age of 18 years he withdrew from the worldly life to Bithynia, where he founded a very reputable lavra, a gathering of anchorites. As a name saint of Michael Feodorowitsch, the first Romanow czar, he was revered especially in the Russian Orthodox area knowingly and often. Ex German art market. 12th-15th Century AD H. 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.); W. 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm.) Art of the Ancient World, 2012, no. 151 GMQ41 SOLD |
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