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JESUS CHRIST PANTOKRATOR/ the Sovereign « Bulgarian Crafts & Art « Icons « Home
Size: 20 x 28 cm
Created by: Fiko Fikov, Qualified icon painter
We offer you a hand painted icon of Jesus Christ Pantokrator (God Almighty/ God of everything. The icon of Christ Pantokrator is one of the most widely used religious images of Orthodox Christianity.
The icon is made in Bulgaria, according to the Bulgarian orthodox painting traditions. For its make was used dark-stained wood. The icon is tempera painted.
The icon we offer you 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.
Icon depicts Jesus, usually fully frontal with a somewhat stern aspect, with one hand raised in blessing and the other holding a closed book, representing the Gospels. On each side of the halo are the letters: IC and XC. The earliest Christians did not often depict Jesus, if they did at all, using instead symbols such as the Ichthys (fish), the Labarum (or Chi-Rho), or an anchor. As Christianity emerged from the catacombs and became a state religion, the images of Jesus began to take on a more imperial look. He was depicted in royal robes, and the halo became very prominent. By this time Jesus had begun to be depicted with the distinctive "look" that dominated much of the history of art, with shoulder-length hair and a beard.
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.
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