Rare Vintage Metal Brass Art mounted on solid wood by iconic artist Diamantis Cassis. This is a stunner, a rare original item in excellent condition. Frame measures 22 by 20 inches. Diamantis Cassis was born in Galaxidion, Greece. Cassis produces iconography in the traditional Byzantine style in painted icons ranging from sets for the iconostasia of churches to single panels of all sizes. In addition to painted icons, Cassis specializes in hand-tooled metal icons in copper and brass. These metal icons, exhibiting intricate detail in low relief, are used as panel icons as well as being incorporated into processional and blessing crosses and liturgical banners. Cassis also has an extensive number of signed and matted photographic prints from his original works, black and white pen and ink signed prints and multicolor woodblock and linoleum block prints for sale at affordable prices. His work has been exhibited at the Biblical Arts Center of Dallas, the University of St Thomas in Houston, St. Mary's University in San Antonio, The State Capitol in Jackson, Mississippi, the Galveston County Historical Museum, and the St. John the Divine Invitational Art Exhibition in Houston. He exhibited and lectured in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1990 as a result of a grant from the Hawaii Committee of the Humanities. He has also lectured at the University of Houston, the University of St. Thomas in Houston, The Amarillo Art Center, the Biblical Art Center of Dallas, the Rosenberg Library of Galveston, and numerous Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant churches. Cassis has been the subject of major features in Houston and Dallas newspapers.