Panagia Gorgoupikoos – Sandblasted gold printing – Mount Athos

Description

Sandblasted gilding with Panagia Gorgoupikoos.

An amazing gold print with the Virgin Mary Gorgoupikoos

A wonderful gold print with the representation of Panagia Gorgoypikoos. As it is known, the miraculous icon of Panagia Gorgoypikoos has been located in the Holy Monastery of Dochiari on Mount Athos since 1646. In fact, it got this name after a miracle. According to tradition, one of the monks was passing in front of the icon of the Virgin Mary with lit torches, blackening it, until a voice was heard asking him to stop.

The monk did not pay attention and continued, as a result of which a little later he lost the light. Then he realized that the voice he heard was that of the Virgin Mary and begged her to take pity on him. The Virgin Mary, as a merciful mother, heard the prayer and gave him the light saying: “I am the Lady of this Monastery and I quickly obey those who invoke me and grant them their requests for salvation”.

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.