Jesus Christ the Life-Giver – Sandblasting Gold Printing – Mount Athos

Description

Sandblasting gold printing with Jesus Christ the Life-Giving

An amazing gold print with Jesus Christ the Life-Giver.

Christ is presented as strict and just. The background of the icon is golden and gives even greater Byzantine magnificence. Throughout the history of the world, the only victor over corruption and death is Christ. With his sacrifice on the cross, he conquered death and sin once and for all.

The Resurrection of Christ is the foundation of the Church. The incarnation of God marks the entry of the eternal and incorruptible into history. In a world dissolved in decay and decay, eternity invades, personified in Christ, as the possibility of transcending death. The Resurrection of Christ is the final victory over death, not only as a continuation of biological life but as immortality.

Sandblasted Gold Printing: Features

In the icon with Jesus Christ the Life-Giver, 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 gold sheet is placed 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.

Dimensions: 14,5 x 18 x 0,5 cm.
Origin: Mount Athos