The icon follows models produced by the painter Victor, on the island of Zante and on the Peloponnese (see M.Chatzidakis, "La peinture des Maddoneri ou Veneto-cretoise et sa destination", in Venezia Centro di Mediazione tra Oriente e Occidente (Secoli XV-XVII). Aspetti e problemi. Atti del II Convegno Internazionale di Storia della Civilita Veneziana, Florence, 1973, p.680, fig.44) The iconography combines elements from the 14th Century icon of Christ in Majesty in the Hellenic Institute Venice, and an icon of Christ Great Hierarch by Michael Damaskinos, (1530-c.1591) on Corfu. (See M. Chatzidakis, Icônes de Saint Georges des Grecs et de la Collection de l'Institut, (Venice 1962), p.7, No.2, pl.l, and P. Vocotopoulos, \kEikones Ths Kerkuras\K, (Athens 1990), No.22, p.44-5, pls23, 114).