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Published: 2013-06-11 16:32:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 2579; Favourites: 35; Downloads: 0
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Tempera on Wood. Background is golden leaf.18x22 centimeters (7x8.6 inches)
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Very lovely work,it look like a Byzantine icon.I wonder if you use egg tempera for this piece?
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Yes, I paint them by the same technology the old masters used to paint back then. I use egg tempera
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yup i knew it cuz I recently playing with it for my work
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its a very interesting deviation...i find it awesome!
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Thanks, it makes me very glad you like it
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This really has a nice classical touch to it. Good job on recreating a lost style
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Well technically, it's not exactly classical (as far as I understand; if I'm wrong, please call me out on it). Classical tends to refer to Greco-Roman style or to the imitation of it during the Renaissance. While Iconography is technically Greek, and originated late in Roman times, it is a style developed in the first millennium primarily by the Greek Orthodox - in the Eastern Roman Empire - and thus not classical in the artistic sense. It is similar to the commonplace Greco-Roman style, but not to (say) the statues and reliefs the Greeks made and the Romans copied.
Is there a specific term for this Iconographic style of art?
Oh and yes by the way I LOVE it. It's good to see - The Good, The True, The Beautiful, which these days too often simply means Tradition.
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Thank you! I'm really glad you like it!
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I guess I've seen some more of you paintings and now I really have to comment at least one of them!
Personally I'm not a great fan of medieval paintings because their are very stiff and plane and the colour of most images I've seen when studying historical art, were poor. But you draw those motives with so bright colors and also manage it to gave the figures a dimensionality which lacks all the medieval painting I've seen so far - but in a way that it really fits the plane style without looking like a displaced realistic coloration which just was taken from later paintings and put on an older one.
Especially the dark fabric is well made! Are you doing restorations too?
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Thank you for the compliments, right now I'm not doing any, I have done restorations in the past yes
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