Agios Georgios – Chrysotyping with Sandblasting – Mount Athos

Description

Gold printing with Sandblasting with Agios Georgios

An amazing gold print with Saint George, the Great Martyr and Trophy-bearer. He was born around 275 AD in Cappadocia, to Christian parents. His father, in fact, died a martyr for Christ when George was ten years old. When he was 18 years old, he joined the Roman army and was quickly promoted to higher offices, and Emperor Diocletian himself held him in high regard.

However, he did not hesitate to confess his faith in front of the emperor, who had begun a struggle for the extermination of the Christians. Diocletian was enraged and imprisoned George, subjecting him to a series of martyrdoms. However, one night while he was imprisoned, Saint George saw in his dream Christ announcing his death and his entry into eternal life. Indeed, the next day Diocletian ordered and cut off his head.

Sandblasted Gold Printing: Features

In the icon with the representation of Saint George, 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