Agia Varvara – Sandblasting Gold Printing – Mount Athos

Description

Sandblasting gold printing with Agia Varvara

An amazing gold print with Agia Varvara.

Saint Barbara lived during the reign of Emperor Maximian (286 – 305 AD) and was the daughter of a pagan. Because she was very beautiful, her father locked her up in a tower so that no one could see her. However, even there she was taught Christianity without her father’s knowledge. Her faith was revealed by a chance event, and then her father handed her over to the local ruler, who tortured her. However, Saint Barbara was eventually slaughtered by her own father, who soon after fell dead struck by lightning. The holy relics of the Saint are kept in Italy.

Sandblasted Gold Printing: Features

In the icon with the representation of Saint Barbara, 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