CHRIST PANTOCRATOR. ORTHODOX ICON. Wood hand painted.
100% wood handpainted, oil painting and later varnished to protect it. 28x38cm
Written according with the Byzantine style, and tradition of preserving all the canons of iconography. It is an exact reproduction of an antique Byzantine masterpiece.
Unique Piece of Art created late 20th, and sold directly by first hand.
They represent Jesus Christ better known and has been repeated more times.
Born to the origins of painting the image of Christ.
It is a figure of bust, blessed with the right hand, two fingers joining and leaving the other three pounds, forming among them the "creed" of the dual nature of Christ and the symbol of the three Persons of the Trinity.
In the West is blessed with an outstretched hand and the Christian East fingers symbolizes the mystery of the incarnation, so the place is called to bless fingers "blessing the Greek way"
Tunic purple or red and green or blue robe. The left hand holds the book of the Gospel in this great case closed.
A tunic, over his shoulder, we see a golden strip, clothing that belonged to the nobility of the characters or the teachers in the Byzantine society.
The originals are in museums and churches in Bulgaria, Russia, Greece and other countries.
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I do all these works myself, and by own hand.
First, I prepare the table by applying 7-8 layers of a mixture of rabbit tail, chalk (calcium carbonate) and water. Once dry, I smooth the surface to make it smooth.
Then I draw the outline and the main lines of the icon and I proceed to apply oil paint.
The faces, hands and feet are painted by myself at the end as well as their luminous tones.
To finish the job, I write the inscriptions and in some my signature, which is my name in Russian Cyrillic "лаура", and the year that I painted it.
Once finished, and when it has completely dried, I apply a thin layer of varnish to protect it.
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