Our own workshop · Tenerife, Canary Islands
Every icon comes from somewhere.
Here we tell you where, and you can get there.
A sacred image is not invented. It is copied from another, which was copied from another, back to a real place where someone painted it for the first time.
Christmas 2026
The crib opens in three pieces.
The Annunciation, the music-making angels and the Adoration leave our Tenerife workshop on Nordic pine panel, hand finished. They are not hand-painted, and we say so: they are printed with this workshop’s technique, like every piece in the catalogue. They are made in limited batches, and the 2026 one is now open: when it sells out, it is gone.
The pilgrimage
Scroll slowly. You are about to travel through six places.
- Mount Sinai Christ Pantocrator The oldest surviving Pantocrator has been at the monastery of Saint Catherine, at the foot of Sinai, for fourteen hundred years. It survived the war on images because it was too far away for anyone to reach it.
- Vladimir Virgin of Tenderness This gesture has its own name in the Christian East and one panel that fixed it for good: the one that travelled from Constantinople to Vladimir in the twelfth century and that the whole of Russia took as its own.
- Cappadocia Saint George and the Dragon George was a Roman officer from Cappadocia, and his cult travelled from there to Lydda and then across the Mediterranean. He is patron of Catalonia, Aragon, Georgia, England and Moscow at once.
- Nazareth The Annunciation The house where it happened lies under the basilica of Nazareth, and you can still go down to it. The icon does not depict a past moment: it sets it in front of you again.
- Jerusalem Our Lady of Sorrows This is the mother at the foot of the cross, on Golgotha, which today lies inside the Holy Sepulchre itself and is reached by a narrow stone stair.
- Assisi Saint Francis of Assisi Assisi sits on an Umbrian hillside and can be seen whole from the plain. The son of a cloth merchant stripped in its square to give his father back his clothes, and everything else follows from that.
The icon screen
Five pieces that explain the rest.
In an eastern church icons are not hung at random: they are set in tiers on a screen that separates the nave from the altar. This is the first tier.
Mount Sinai
Christ Pantocrator
Ref. AS001016 – AS001030 – AS001042
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Vladimir
Virgin of Tenderness
Ref. AS002016 – AS002030 – AS002042
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Cappadocia
Saint George and the Dragon
Ref. AS003016 – AS003030 – AS003042
Not available
Nazareth
The Holy Family
Ref. AS005016 – AS005030 – AS005042
Not available
Jerusalem
Our Lady of Sorrows
Ref. AS013016 – AS013030 – AS013042
Not available
Bari
Saint Nicholas of Bari
Ref. AS020016 – AS020030 – AS020042
Not available
Jerusalem
The Dormition of the Virgin
Ref. AS021016 – AS021030 – AS021042
Not available
Tenerife
Saint Peter of Betancur, Brother Peter
Ref. AS030016 – AS030030 – AS030042
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Constantinople
Archangel Michael
Ref. AS033016 – AS033030 – AS033042
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The nave
66 pieces. 23 places.
From Sinai to Assisi, from Nazareth to Syracuse. Every piece has an origin and we name it.
- Mount Sinai Christ Pantocrator
- Vladimir Virgin of Tenderness Virgin of Tenderness, round panel
- Cappadocia Saint George and the Dragon The Tetramorph
- Nazareth The Annunciation The Holy Family
- Jerusalem The Lamentation Ecce Homo Our Lady of Sorrows The Dormition of the Virgin The Last Supper The Weeping of Saint Peter Saint James the Apostle, the pilgrim The Road to Calvary Saint Veronica The Crucifixion Stabat Mater Stations of the Cross
- Ephesus Christ, Light of the World
- Rome The Good Shepherd The Virgin in Prayer Salus Populi Romani Saint Peter the Apostle Saint Paul the Apostle Saint John Bosco The Holy Trinity Agnus Dei Christ the King Immaculate Conception
- Gethsemane The Agony in the Garden
- Paray-le-Monial Sacred Heart of Jesus
- Fatima Immaculate Heart of Mary Our Lady of Fatima
- Constantinople Virgin of the Golden Mantle Archangel Gabriel Virgin Hodegetria, she who shows the way Archangel Michael Christ the Teacher Man of Sorrows Christ in Glory Saint Marina
- Assisi Saint Francis of Assisi
- San Damiano Saint Clare of Assisi
- Syracuse Saint Lucy
- San Giovanni Rotondo Saint Pio of Pietrelcina
- Bari Saint Nicholas of Bari
- Bethlehem The Nativity Angel of the Nativity Nativity Triptych Triptych of the Magi Christmas Mystery Triptych Diptych of the Adoration Triptych of the Angels
- Moscow The Resurrection Crucifixion of the Russian school Archangel Raphael Saint Tatiana the Martyr Virgin of the Seven Sorrows Virgin of Silence
- Tenerife Saint Peter of Betancur, Brother Peter Saint José de Anchieta
- Sea of Galilee Jesus Walks on the Water
- Sebastea Saint Blaise
- Lourdes Our Lady of Lourdes
- Calcutta Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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You know what you are buying
Exact dimensions, panel thickness, weight, wood and lead time. All of it before you pay, not after.
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You know who makes it
Our own workshop in Tenerife. Chromography on Nordic pine panel with a hand finish. It is not hand painting and we do not sell it as such.
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You know you can come back
Fourteen days to return it without giving reasons. Insured and tracked delivery.
Start with the catalogue.
Or write to us and we will tell you which one fits what you are looking for.