Archangel Michael the Taxiarch – Sandblasted gold print – Mount Athos

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Sandblasted gilding with Archangel Michael the Taxiarch
An amazing gold print with Archangel Michael the Taxiarch.

Archangel Michael is the commander of the incorporeal forces, appears as the Commander-in-Chief and has a pivotal role in both the Old and New Testaments, while it is established that he is celebrated as the patron of the Air Force. He is the One who appeared to Abraham at the sacrifice of Isaac.
When Lucifer, who belonged to the angels, rebelled because of his pride against God, an order of angels rejected God and followed him. These angels, along with Lucifer, were persecuted and turned into demons. Then, the Archangel Michael, in humility and submission to God, gathered and united the ranks of the angels, calling them “Proschomen”, that is, let us be careful not to fall from light to darkness like Lucifer.

In the icon with the representation of Saint Archangel Michael the Taxiarch , the hagiographer monk used the gold printing technique creating a work of unique beauty. Gold printing is a type of thermotype technique. Thermography is the name of the method by which very thin metallic gold foil is placed on surfaces such as wood, leather, cardboard, plastic by pressing a heated embossed plate (cliché) onto our surface. Around the image you also use the sandblasting technique, it is the technical processing by which the corrosion of a part or the whole of a surface is achieved by throwing sand under pressure.