Wooden icon " Nikola Mozhaisky"

The icon on a tree Nikola Mozhaisky is created in our workshop by means of our author's technology of production of icons. All work on the creation of the icons are made manually by the master.
In the manufacture of icons, the widely used technology of artificial aging of wood, patination.
The icon - a wooden Board and linen canvas. On the canvas we apply the gesso in several layers with intermediate sanding each layer.
The gesso is applied the icon and polishing wax composition.
The size of the icon is 29*20 cm, but under the order it is possible to make an icon in a different size.
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About the icon: Icons of Nicholas the Wonderworker with a sword in his right hand and the city on the left date back to the miraculous image of the Saint, famous in the city of Mozhaisk. Above the gates of the Mozhaisk fortress, in a special Kyoto with a keeled finish, stood a carved wooden image of St. Nicholas, protecting the city from enemy invasions.

Copies of Mozhaisk shrines usually consisted of a wooden sculpture, traditionally placed in the boxes-cases. The picturesque images of the Mozhaisk statue, known since the XVI century, often included a frame with a keeled, triangular or multi-blade completion, reminiscent of this tradition.

On the Yaroslavl icon Nicholas the Wonderworker, revered as a defender of Christian cities, holds in his left hand a fortress with a Cathedral inside. A rare detail is the stepped foot on which the Saint stands.