Ascension of the Lord – Sandblasted Gold Printing – Mount Athos

Description

Sandblasted gilding with the Ascension of the Lord.

A stunning gold print with the Ascension of the Lord.

Jesus Christ after His Resurrection from the dead, did not immediately leave the world, but continued for forty days to appear to His disciples. According to New Testament accounts, the Ascension took place on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem in front of His disciples, who watched in awe as their Master was removed. According to Luke’s Gospel, on the fortieth day, the Lord “brought his disciples out to Bethany”, to the Mount of Olives where he usually prayed. “And having lifted up his hands, he blessed them.” The evangelist Mark says that after the explicit mission of the disciples to the whole world “he was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God”.

Gold Sandblasting: Features

In the icon with the representation of Jesus Christ, the hagiographer monk used the technique of gold printing, creating a work of unique beauty.
Gold printing is a type of thermotype technique. Thermography is the name of the method by which very thin metallic gold foil is placed on surfaces such as wood, leather, cardboard, plastic by pressing a heated embossed plate (cliché) onto our surface. Around the image you also use the sandblasting technique, it is the technical processing by which the corrosion of a part or the whole of a surface is achieved by throwing sand under pressure.