SOLD - “Icon of the Holy New Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna” /Renaissance Painting {open prints only / original not available for sale} & Painting

↓ ↓ ↓ ▲ PAINTING: Wood, “Kovcheg” (cut-back centre portion), “Levkas” (Gesso), “Pavoloka” ( fabric/piece of cloth), Egg Tempera, Gold Leaf/Gilding HANDMADE ICON Original is sold. Fine Art Print is available. Perfect for a small wall decor. This print will be an excellent gift and will look authentic in both contemporary and traditional interiors. 
This print will bring an appeasement into your house your bedroom or living room. Ready to hang. Includes Certificate of Authenticity. The colors of the original paintings may slightly vary from what they appear on computer monitors/mobile screens due to different camera/PC monitor/mobile screen resolution and settings. The Icons look like a real medieval Russian art, written by old masters of the 16th - 17th – centuries. All my paintings are stylized as antiqued and made in the classic technique of old Masters. ▲ Note: The icons have a number of specific features: cracks (“craquelures”); imitation of loss of the “levkas” and the paint layer. A pattern of minute surface cracks (a network of fine cracks) on painted surface. I developed my own unique technique and technology imitation of craquelure, loss of the “levkas” (gesso) and the paint layer. The crack patterns are artificial (handmade). The craquelure varnish was not used for the stylization! The icons are made to appear aged through the use of artificial methods and various techniques. The majority of the Icons, I have created were painted on aged wood, however, at times I have had to resort to the use of boards created and carved with my own hands, and subsequently aged artificially. In particular, this icon board created and carved with my own hands, and subsequently aged artificially. The “kovcheg” (cut-back centre portion) is deep, with two thin connected cut in the reverse side. All Icons are executed in accordance with the canon, iconographic traditions and iconography technique. The traditional iconography basically imitate rare extant icons of the 16th - 17th – centuries. The icons look old-time (old style/16th - 17th – centuries style) and very similar to the original icons of the 16th - 17th – centuries style. The future Grand Duchess and New Martyr Elizabeth was born in 1864. She was the daughter of Ludwig IV, Grand-Duke of Hessen-Darmstadt, and Princess Alice, daughter of Queen Victoria. She was a German Hessian and Rhenish princess of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt. In 1884 Elizabeth married the Grand Duke Sergei, the son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia in two ceremonies, one Orthodox, the other Protestant. Deeply in love with her husband, she began to study the Russian people and culture and above all the Orthodox Faith which had moulded them. She long hesitated to join the Orthodox Church, for fear of upsetting her immediate family who were Lutherans. Then after two years of intense study and prayer, of her own free will she finally decided to become an Orthodox Christian by conviction. She was duly received by chrismation into the Orthodox Church on the Saturday before Palm Sunday 1891. The Grand Duchess devoted herself to charitable work, continually caring for the well-being of the Russian Orthodox people. After the Socialist Revolutionary Party's Combat Organization assassinated her husband with a bomb in 1905, Elisabeth publicly forgave Sergei's murderer, Ivan Kalyayev, and campaigned without success for him to be pardoned. She then departed the Imperial Court and became a nun, founding the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent dedicated to helping the downtrodden of Moscow. In 1918 she was arrested and ultimately murdered by the Bolsheviks. Abbess Elizabeth was canonised by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in 1981, and in 1992 by the Moscow Patriarchate. The icon is distinguished by the iconography of the saint's image – the icon painted in 16th-centery style. This iconographic motif that first appeared in the 16th-century iconography is not typical of the 20th-century. The icon depicts the full-length figure of the saint Elizabeth holding a model of the church in her left hand. Saint Elizabeth is portrayed in a frontal pose against a golden yellow background. The iconography of the icon scene is traditional, basically imitating a few surviving icons of the late 16th – 17th centuries.  Let me know if you have any questions! I will be happy to answer. Thanks for looking!

Painting:Tempera on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:11 W x 21 H x 1 D in

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.