The Intercession Of The Mother Of God

Material: beech, copper, gold(999) Technique: electroplating, blackening, gilding. Protection of the virgin - icon is dedicated to one of the greatest holidays of the Russian Orthodox Church, the basis of which formed the tradition of the phenomenon of the Mother of God in Constantinople, the Church. In the Orthodox tradition "cover" means a cover that holds the virgin, and patronage. The relief image of the virgin made in the traditional manner. She goes to prayer, stretching them over the cover. At the bottom of the icon "the Image of the Holy virgin". Icon-Tonda (round shape) is made by electroforming on copper, with subsequent blackening. The background for the figures and the frame of the icon is elaborately decorated in the traditional iconography of vegetable ornament.