Famous Greek painter and historian Panagiotis Doxaras was Leo’s student.

Angelo's Christ the Vine is located at the Monastery of the Virgin Hodegetria, Heraklion, Crete.

The tree typically rises from Jesse of Bethlehem, the father of King David.

The Tree of Jesse (Ρίζα του Ιεσσαί) has appeared numerous times in Greek Italian Byzantine art.

The Moskos version Christ the Vine is an identical copy of a painting in the Byzantine and Christian Museum identified by historians as a mid-16th-century icon created by an unknown artist.

[3][4][5] Christ the Vine is a tempera painting on gold leaf and wood panel.

Beginning from the top of the vine to our left, Peter is seated on a branch holding a book and the Keys of Heaven.

On the other side, across Peter, sits Paul the Evangelist, he also holds a unique book.

The final group at the lowest branches of the tree to our left, Thomas looks up at Jesus.

It was either wrongfully attributed to a different artist or Moskos created an almost identical version of his own work.

The artwork relative to earlier versions of the theme created by Cretan painter Angelos Akotantos displays the same figures.

The figures in the later works are more refined adapting to the Venetian influenced maniera greca.

The central figure of Christ is smaller the painter adds more details and lines to the work.