Bulgarian Hand Painted Icon of Deesis

Icon measures: 15 x 20 cm
The icon is hand made, tempera painted on dark stained wood
Created by: K.Georgieva, Qualified icon painter

We offer you a hand painted icon of Deesis. The icon is made in Bulgaria, according to the original medieval Bulgarian orthodox painting traditions (17th c.). For its make was used dark stained wood. The icon is tempera painted and depicts the Deesis as a traditional representation of Christ in Majesty or Christ Pantokrator: enthroned, carrying a book, and flanked by Mary and St. John the Baptist, and sometimes other saints and angels. Mary and John, and any other figures, are shown as supplicators to Christ on behalf of humanity;

The red color symbolize divinity and the transcending of the limits of mortality and the Gold is to symbolize the power of spirit.

The icon makes an excellent gift for your friends and family and it will remind you of the intransient values we, human beings, have a tendency to forget about now and then.

General information In 865 the Bulgarians were THE FIRST Slavonic people to adopt Christianity from Byzantium as its official religion.
Since then the icon, venerated as an especially sacred object of cult and rite, has developed as a fundamental part of the Bulgarian art from the ninth century until present days. The Bulgarian icon painters had left their deep mark in the overall development of Christian Orthodox Art. Their trail can be seen in the monasteries of Mount Athos and the south-west Balkans, or in Wallachia, Moldavia and Russia, whose icon masters had followed the Bulgarian canonical pattern.
The rich historical background of the Bulgarian icon and the fact that it is a result of the efforts of a small but gifted nation makes it an inseparable element of European cultural history.

price: 18.20 EUR / 23.84 USD

shipping: 9.1 EUR / 11.92 USD (combined shipping)

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