The Glass Icons

The museum’s ethnographic collection houses an extremely valuable collection of 54 icons on glass made by self-taught painters With their lively colours and folk ornaments, the icons attract attention and testify to the various influences of late Byzantine and Baroque painting in this area The painters were originally from southern...

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  • The museum’s ethnographic collection houses an extremely valuable collection of 54 icons on glass made by self-taught painters
  • With their lively colours and folk ornaments, the icons attract attention and testify to the various influences of late Byzantine and Baroque painting in this area
  • The painters were originally from southern Balkan regions – such as Macedonia and Greece – and crossed from the Ottoman Empire to Austria and painted for the Orthodox population in Vojvodina