The Icon "Angel Of Golden Hair"

Icon on wood handmade "angel Golden Hair"
the basis of the icon is natural wood, board and levkas.
Cross keys on the reverse side ensure that the icon will not be warped or crumbled over time.
A field called "ark" is selected in the tree"
The icon image itself is applied there.
Final finishing is performed by a master hand in his conception.
The icon is covered with a composition based on beeswax. Each icon is unique and unrepeatable.
Size icon angel the Golden Hair of the small 35*30 cm. Under the order possibly production of the icon in a different size and wishes of the customer.
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About the icon: Angel Golden hair — the oldest icon of the collection of the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Dates from the second half of the XII century. Most experts attribute it to the Novgorod school of icon painting.
A characteristic feature of this iconography are angel hair, made in the technique "asista" gold leaf, making this iconography, and are called this. For each thread of the angel laid a thin thread of gold leaf, making his hair glow a heavenly divine light, because gold symbolizes the icon of the heavenly, Divine.