Description

Lithograph aged with Virgin Mary Paramythia

The name Paramythia, i.e. consolation, was given to this form of the Virgin Mary where the sight of her calms and comforts the soul. According to Christian tradition, the Virgin Mary of Paramythia in the Holy Monastery of Vatopedi was saved thanks to the miraculous intervention of the particular icon of the Virgin Mary, when it was threatened by pirates at the beginning of the 14th century. The icon of the Virgin Mary is kept in the chapel of the Church where the Monks hold an unextinguished candle and chant a prayer every day.

Lithography Aged: Characteristics

Using a lithographed copy of Byzantine art, the iconographer, a monk of Mount Athos, created this work following the traditional method of artificial aging, which is followed in the Orchard of Panagia.