Agios Dimitrios – Gold-printing with Sandblasting – Mount Athos

Description

Gold printing with Sandblasting with Agios Dimitrios

An amazing gold print with Agios Dimitrios, the patron saint and patron saint of Thessaloniki. In the person of Saint Demetriou, Thessaloniki sees its patron and liberator. Not only because the liberation of the city from the Turks in 1912 coincided with the feast of the Saint, but also because, as tradition says, before the liberation of Thessaloniki, its inhabitants saw the Saint on horseback in the White Tower encouraging them. According to Christian tradition, Saint Demetrios lived and was martyred in Thessaloniki under Diocletian, while he was the son of an aristocratic family and an officer, but this status did not prevent him from accepting the Orthodox faith and being baptized as a Christian.

Sandblasted Gold Printing: Features

In the icon with the representation of the Saint Demetriou 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.

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