This theme of Virgin Paramithia, is a variation of the Italian type of ‘Madre di Consolazione’, combined with the iconographic type of the Coronation of the Virgin. Due to this Venetian-Byzantine combination in both the iconographical types as well as the stylistic elements of the icon, it is attributed to the Venetian-Cretan school, which usually combined such elements. The Virgin is portrayed in bust, frontally, holding the Child, while angels are crowning her. At the back of the icon, there was a lead plate with an inscription stating that the icon was property of Fransiscus Collunna from Venice and bearing the date 7th of April of 1573.
The inscription reads as follows:
MCCCCLXXIIII
Tempore Vicarium Magnifici Matthei Veneti
Retany tur est locus his suasqme
nus F Fransiscus Collunna Venetus Ktas \ ubas
MDLXXIII, VII ktas APRILIIS
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