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Virgin milk. Vesseler Sporssova. Icon, Bulgaria 2009

Bizantin icon. Vesseler Sporssova, Nessebar.

Dimensions: 164 x 118 mm

SectionPainting
MaterialWood
ContinentEurope
CountryBulgaria
Year2009

The icon is, along with the mosaic, the main pictorial manifestation of Byzantine art, heir to Roman and Paleo-Christian art from the 6th century onwards. Icons are portraits of biblical figures, most of them painted on plaster panels, in tempera on a gold background symbolising the heavens, or covered with silver. It is orthodox Christian sacred art that survives to this day.

This icon, brought from Nessebar by Yasmin Paricio Burtin and James Burke, is a copy of a 16th-century icon by the artist Vesseler Sporssova.

The icon is, along with the mosaic, the main pictorial manifestation of Byzantine art, heir to Roman and Paleo-Christian art from the 6th century onwards. Icons are portraits of biblical figures, most of them painted on plaster panels, in tempera on a gold background symbolising the heavens, or covered with silver. It is orthodox Christian sacred art that survives to this day.

This icon, brought from Nessebar by Yasmin Paricio Burtin and James Burke, is a copy of a 16th-century icon by the artist Vesseler Sporssova.