hand-painted in oil on a wood panel overlaid with a repousse and embossed silver oklad or riza, and with applied gilt-silver halo with pierced-through decor ...

Parcel-gilt silver, cloisonné and champlevé enamel, the silver-gilt oklad pushed and chased, the halo cloisonné enamelled in shades of blue, red, white and green, Christ flanked by champlev enamelled ...

Christ "is the image of the invisible God." That idea has inspired thousands of representations of Jesus of decidedly wide-ranging degrees of artistic quality. One of the oldest images we have is a ...