The Virgin of Tenderness. Emmanuel Lambardos. 1609 (?). The icon bears the signature of Emmanuel Lambardos, added in the 18th c., and the date 1609, probably replicating the destroyed original inscription. Lambardos belonged to the conservative generation of Cretan painters who in the early 17th c. successfully copied icons painted in the 15th c. 1.10x0.831 m. (ΓΕ 2984)