Agia Irini – Chrysotype with Sandblasting – Mount Athos

Description

Gold printing with Sandblasting with Agia Irini

An amazing gold print with Saint Irene the Great Martyr. Saint Irene the Great Martyr lived in the 4th century AD. According to tradition, he had exceptional beauty and education, while he had great eloquence and intense religious zeal. With a missionary disposition she taught Christianity with brilliant results until her death in Ephesus. The Church commemorates her on May 5.

Sandblasted Gold Printing: Features

In the icon with the representation of Saint Irene, 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