“Icon Of Our Lady Of Georgia/Hodegetria” - #2 part of a series titled “Mother of God” (original painting/portrays on a red background color) Painting

PAINTING: Watercolor, graphite and pencil on Paper ▲ Note: The layer of paint partly (face, hands, clothing, etc.) is opaque. This is not regular watercolor work, created by using watercolor paints, but the technique is very similar to pastose/ impasto (the multilayer painting). The unique technique of layering the highest quality watercolor is used to achieve a visual 3D effect, felt in this original painting. Artwork has not been painted all the way to the edge of the paper. The artworks look like a real medieval Russian art, written by old masters of the 16th century. All my paintings are stylized as antiqued and made in the classic technique of old times masters. Watercolor series of the Godmother’s images. There are more than 300 images (titles) of the Godmother in Orthodoxy in total. This one “Icon Of Our Lady Of Georgia/Hodegetria” is the second in an ongoing watercolor series titled “Mother of God”. The series is not just an images of the Godmother, but actual copies of wooden icons (in a strictly frontal form / position). The image of the wooden icon has a number of specific features. The imitation of the nail holes in a lost basma attachment places, imitation of the levkas cracks (“craquelures”) and also, imitation of loss of the levkas and the paint layer. The character of levkas losses says that the icon was set in a basma case. A pattern of minute surface cracks (a network of fine cracks) on painted surface. The crack patterns were drawn. The craquelure varnish was not used for the stylization! All the images are executed in accordance with the canon, iconographic traditions and iconography technique. The traditional iconography basically imitate rare extant icons of the 16th – century. This artwork will be an excellent gift and will look authentic in both contemporary and traditional interiors. This artwork will bring an appeasement into your house your bedroom or living room. ✔︎ Type: Painting ✔︎ Medium: Made using graphite (lead) pencil, color pencil and extra-fine artists’ watercolors “White Nights” (mixed media technique) ✔︎ Materials: Paper from the historical papermaker Canson who got an uninterrupted tradition of quality papermaking since 1557 ∙ Canson FineArt (“Montval”) paper ∙ acid free ∙ age resistant ∙ “Snow grain” ∙archival museum quality ∙ 125 lbs (270 g/m2) ✔︎ Original painting - Unique (One of a kind) ✔︎ Size: (Width)11,8” x (Height)15,5” in (30 x 39,5 cm) ✔︎ The painting is sold unframed. Photo with a frame is an example. Needs to be framed. ✔︎ Artworks signed and dated by the artist ✔︎ Includes Certificate of Authenticity, signed by the artist ✔︎ Ships in a cardboard box. This work will ship flat in a sturdy, well-protected cardboard box. Professionally packaged for delivery. (Highly safe packaging with thick cardboard and bubble wrap to protect it.) ✔︎ All pieces are shipped with insurance and tracker worldwide. Please understand colors may vary slightly between the actual painting and the image on your screen due to my digital camera’s results and your monitor. Let me know if you have any questions! I will be happy to answer. Thanks for looking! ******************************************************************* The Georgian icon of the Mother of God is a waist-length image of the Theotokos Hodegetria with the Child Christ upon Her arms, which became widespread in Novgorodian art during the 15th – 16th centuries. The iconography received its name - “Georgian” – much later, after the finding and the veneration of the wonderworking icon. According to legend, it was taken out of Georgia by Persian Shah Abbas after the conquest of the country in 1622. Three years later Stefan Lazarev, who had trading business in Persia, bought this wonderful image from Muslims, charmed by its splendor. Upon its return home, the icon was sent to the Montenegrin Monastery on the Pinega River, which is near Arkhangelsk, where it became famous for its miracles. In 1654 the Georgian Mother of God was brought to Moscow to make a new frame. That year the plague raged in the capital, and many miraculous healings of the patients occurred from the imported image. So, the son of a pious silvery master Gabriel Evdokimov was dying. A prayer service before the miraculous icon was served in his house - and the child recovered. In gratitude for the healing of his son, Gabriel Evdokimov ordered a copy of the Georgian icon for the Church of the Holy Trinity in Nikitniki, which since then has also become known as Georgian. The beneficent help of the Blessed Virgin Mary continued to occur to the sick and suffering through this copy. Because of many reports about miraculous healings in 1658, Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich and Patriarch Nikon established the celebration of the Georgian Icon of the Mother of God on August, 22. Our Lady of Georgia is an ancient miracle-working image. The icon portrays the waist-length figure of the Mother of God with the Child against a bright red (vermilion/cinnabar) background of the centerpiece. The borders of the icon are brown (golden-brownish-ochre). The Mother of God is depicted in an almost frontal position, with her head slightly turned towards the Child Christ, her look directed towards the viewer. The Child is shown seated on the Holy Virgin’s hand; the Infant Christ has an elongated figure and a small head, with His feet shown sidewise. The fingers of the Child’s right hand are folded in a blessing gesture close to the three-fingers sign. The Holy Virgin’s look expresses sorrow and prayer for the Son and all the people. The Mother of God is wearing dark cherry brown (brownish red colour/shades of red and brown color) omophorion falling in nice broad folds with golden orange edging and dark emerald chiton. On the shoulder of the Holy Virgin is a gold star, there is a gold star on the forehead. Infant Christ dressed in unusually color clothes – a light-green chiton with an ornamented clavus and a golden orange himation. The chiton of the Child is decorated with ornamentation. The vestments of the Son and of the Mother of God are richly covered with golden assist. The halos and some elements of clothes are painted in gold. The halos are golden with red outlines. The ornamentation of clothes look so lifelike that one can almost feel the tissue of clothes. The austere image of the Mother of God is distinguished by the unusually elongated and symmetrical contours, a long and thin nose, a motionless look of big eyes, raised eyebrows. The whole composition and iconography are traditional for the Russian icon painting of the 16th century. The half-figure the Mother of God and the Son are beautifully painted on a vertical board. The saint’s image is noted for prayerful concentration and spiritual enlightenment. The artwork has emotional shade. The color palette is exquisite. The soft roundish faces of Christ and the Mother of God are painted over a brown sankir layer with transparent honey shading ochre and finest brushes making an impression of a single color layer seemingly luminous from the inside. The painting of the faces are combining liquid ochre and reddening. The faces of the saints are noted for the profound and contemplative expression. To make the Holy Virgin look more sorrowful the I made a special emphasis on her eyes. The icon is noted for its contrast color solution – a dark-green, almost emerald, chiton, and light-green, almost emerald, lapels of the underside against a red-cinnabar (vermilion) background. The distinctive features of this iconographic version, apart from the gesture of Christ’s hand, is the Mother of God mournfully looking at the figure of the Child; the position of the Virgin’s hands, encountered in the iconography of Hodegetria. The delicate elongated figures almost float through the compositions of the icon making the images deeply spiritual and detached from reality. While the artwork is small in size, the Saints' images look majestic. In terms of iconography, the Georgian icon is a waist-length variant of the Theotokos Hogedetria type. The Mother of God is portrayed frontally, with Her head slightly turned and inclined towards the Child Christ. With her left hand she supports Christ, and with her left points to the Child as the true way of salvation. The characteristic feature of the icon is a specific pattern of the folds of the omophorion falling from the Mother of God’s head so that it leaves open the triangle of a dark blue-emerald chiton on Her breast and wide, symmetrically bent, light emerald color lapels of the underside. The Child’s head is slightly thrown back, his right blessing hand is raised vertically, with his left he holds a scroll. Another specific feature of the icon is a depiction of the Child’s right foot turned under his left foot with a bare sole to the outside.

Painting:portrait_paintings_woman_color on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:11.8 W x 15.5 H x 0.1 D in

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