7. THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL FROM THE DEESIS RANGE 15th century 33 x 50. Egg tempera on lime wood. From the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Drohobych, Lviv region. 140k, jpeg. The Deesis, to which the icon of the Archangel Michael belongs, has scarcely been preserved: the main personages of the central section, the Virgin Mary and Christ Pantocrator, have been lost, but the range of interceders, albeit not complete, including the icons of St. John the Baptist, the Apostle Peter, the Apostle Paul, St. John Chrysostom and St. Nicholas, has survived. So we can maintain that once the icons comprised an entire register of the iconostasis. The Deesis range bears an emphasized concept of festivity: the background of the icons are decorated with ornamental patterns, bright flowers are painted on the terra verde, while the Archangel Michael is attired in a dalmatic, a lorum and a mantle studded with precious stones and pearls. He presents the so-called 'lorum' type of the archangel, which was popular in Byzantium and could be found in Kyiv's St. Sophia as early as the first half of the 11th century. http://www.christusrex.org/www1/lviv/Gallery/Room2.html