A Greek Icon of the Annunciation, Andreas Karantinos, before 1716

the Theotokos is depicted standing with a small cushion beneath her feet at right and the Archangel Gabriel is seen at left, the Holy Spirit, depicted as a dove, is shown between them; both holding scrolls, held within a later frame

some areas of loss and stabilization
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This icon is signed by the clergyman and iconographer Andreas Karantinos (1680?-1740) of Kefalonia, an important painter of the Greek-Ionian style. Recent archival discoveries suggest that this can be dated prior to 1716, the year in which he was promoted within the church hierarchy. (He was eventually a candidate for archbishop of Kefalonia.) Karantinos was a student of Stephanos Tzangarolas (fl. 1688-1710) as well as a teacher of Konstantinos Kokkinos and Athanasios Anninos. Numerous icons by his hand are today held in the Byzantine Museum in Athens. See M. Acheimastou-Potamianou, Eikones tou Vyzantinou Mouseiou Athinon, Athens, 1998 and C. Boltayanni et al, Vyzantino Mouseiou: Ta Nea Apokemata (1986-1996), Athens, 1997.