Jesus Christ Extreme Humiliation – Sandblasted Gold Printing – Mount Athos

Description

Gold Blasting with Jesus Christ Extreme Humiliation

The image of Extreme Humility is a symbol of the Passion, which leads to the ultimate humiliation of Christ and his ignominious death on the Cross, endured for the sake of man’s sins. Christ as Savior fights on the Cross to redeem man from spiritual death because of his alienation from God.

Sandblasted Gold Printing: Features

In the icon with the representation of Jesus Christ the Pantokrator, the hagiographer monk used the technique of gold printing creating a work of unique beauty. Gold-stamping is a kind of hot-stamping technique. Hot-stamping is the method by which very thin metal foil is glued on surfaces such as wood, leather, cardboard, plastic by pressing a heated embossed plate (plate) on our surface. Around the image you also use the technique of sandblasting, it is the technical treatment that achieves the corrosion of part or all of a surface by pouring sand under pressure.

Origin: Mount Athos