Jesus Christ – Sandblasted gold print – Mount Athos

Description

Sandblasted gilding with Jesus Christ.

An amazing gold print with Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ appears in Orthodox Christian iconography with the epithet Pantokrator. The central dome (dome) of all Byzantine churches is painted with the image of the Almighty Jesus, while in the churches that lack a dome, in the style of the Basilica, the image is painted in the center of the ceiling.
Christ the Almighty is usually depicted stern, but full of love with his right hand blessing and his left hand carrying the Gospel. Angels fly around him, praising his glory forever.

Gold Sandblasting: Features

In the icon with the representation of Jesus Christ, the hagiographer monk used the technique of gold printing, 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.