Items Similar to Icon of Our Lady of Jerusalem with oklad by Oliver Samsinger

Oliver Samsinger - Icon of The Holy Virgin of Tenderness (Korsunskaya).

Oliver Samsinger - The Virgin of Tijvin (after a Russian Icon in the style of the 18th century).

Oliver Samsinger - Virgin of Tijvin, after a Russian icon of the 17th Century.

Oliver Samsinger - Byzantine Icon "Virgin of the Sign" (Orans) with Child Emmanuel Cherubim

Oliver Samsinger - Panagia Paramythia Byzantine Style Icon, Egg Tempera on Wood, 24K Gold Leaf

Oliver Samsinger - Virgin of Kataphyge and St. John, after a Byzantine Bulgarian Icon 14th Century

Want more images or videos?

Request additional images or videos from the seller

1 of 13

Oliver Samsinger
Icon of Our Lady of Jerusalem with oklad by Oliver Samsinger

$2,757.71

$3,447.1320% Off

£2,049.04

£2,561.3020% Off

€2,304

€2,88020% Off

CA$3,777.49

CA$4,721.8620% Off

A$4,121.04

A$5,151.3020% Off

CHF 2,185.72

CHF 2,732.1420% Off

MX$49,649.22

MX$62,061.5320% Off

NOK 27,740.97

NOK 34,676.2120% Off

SEK 25,397.61

SEK 31,747.0120% Off

DKK 17,551.58

DKK 21,939.4820% Off

About the Item

Icon of Our Lady of Jerusalem. Egg tempera on gesso and over a wooden board. Dimensions in centimeters: 42 x 34 x 2 cm / In inches: 16.54 x 13-39 x 0-79 " Author: Oliver Samsinger. This icon with the image of Our Lady of Jerusalem is covered by a beautiful anthracite gray metal oklad or lid with golden reliefs all around and inlaid with polished semiprecious stones. (The oklad, in principle, were made to cover damaged parts of highly revered ancient icons, later it became part of newly created icons, using silver and precious stones depending on the purchasing power of the person who commissioned the execution of the work). This is how the artist sums up the technique used by him to create the icon: “The aim of these steps is to create a durable painting. The icon is eternal. The first step is to choose support, traditionally made of wood, from the center of the trunk to avoid warping it. For this purpose, two hardwood bolts were often used on the back to give the picture panel additional stability. Often a frame is milled out. Then the image carrier is sanded smooth and now 12 or 14 thin layers of gesso are applied and sanded smooth as well. Then the preliminary drawing is applied and the drawing board is prepared with a special preparation called bolus. This bolus can be polished to a high gloss. Afterwards, the gold leaf is "shot" with special brushes. It dries up within a few hours and can now be polished with agate. Gold leaf is real 24-carat gold. Now the actual process of painting begins. Egg tempera is made fresh from egg yolk, water, and a little vinegar. This is used to prepare the color pigments. Tempera painting is done in numerous layers from dark to light. When the icon is finished, it is left to dry for a few months and varnished with a special varnish called Olifa made from boiled linseed oil and other ingredients”. ABOUT THE ARTIST Oliver Samsinger (Vienna, 1968) began to take an interest in icons in 1990. He undertakes several trips to Bulgaria, Greece, and Cyprus to see in situ the original works treasured in these three countries. This experience will be crucial in his life since the studies carried out in Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, and his stay on Mount Athos constitute his greatest impulse and motivation to dedicate himself to making his own works, in a self-taught way, inspired by the models Russians and Byzantines that he had seen so closely, applying all his technical and artistic skills to his creations. Oliver studies the ancient tradition for the realization of icons: wooden support, egg tempera paint, gold leaf, special varnishes ... it is a long and very elaborate procedure by means of which he makes very personal replicas of important icons of the orthodox church. His icons have been exhibited in the Diocesan Museum of Vienna; also in the old Carmelite Church (KarmeliteKirche) and the Villa Wertheimstein in the same city between 2003 and 2006, and have also had successful presentations in Spain.

Creator:
Oliver Samsinger (1968, Austrian)
Dimensions:
Height: 16.54 in (42 cm)Width: 13.39 in (34 cm)Depth: 0.79 in (2 cm)
Medium:
Gesso,Wood,Egg Tempera,Brass
Movement Style:
Byzantine
Period:
1990-1999
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Segovia, ES
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU744310143882

More From This Seller

View All

Icon of The Holy Virgin of Tenderness (Korsunskaya).

Located in Segovia, ES

Icon of THE KORSUN VIRGIN (KORSUNSKAYA), egg tempera, and gold leave on gesso, over a piece of wood. Dimensions: (H) 26.5 x (W) 23.5 x (D) 3 cm. Also called The Holy Virgin of Tenderness, represents the Mother of God and infant Christ in a tender cheek-to-cheek embrace. The Virgin's hands tenderly surround the head and hands of the Child Jesus while he takes the cloak of the Mother of God with his left hand and plays with the fingers of his right hand, between his mother's neck and his own. Two very old icons, from the 12th and 13th Centuries, painted on the same theme, are respectively in the Uspenskii Cathedral in Moscow and in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. This is how the artist sums up the technique used by him to create the icon: “The aim of these steps is to create a durable painting. The icon is eternal. The first step is to choose a support, traditionally made of wood, from the center of the trunk to avoid warping it. For this purpose, two hardwood bolts were often used on the back to give the picture panel additional stability. Often a frame is milled out. Then the image carrier is sanded smooth and now 12 or 14 thin layers of gesso are applied and sanded smooth as well. Then the preliminary drawing is applied and the drawing board is prepared with a special preparation called bolus. This bolus can be polished to a high gloss. Afterward, the gold leaf is "shot" with special brushes. It dries up within a few hours and can now be polished with agate. Gold leaf is real 24-carat gold. Now, the actual process of painting begins. Egg tempera is made fresh from egg yolk, water and a little vinegar. This is used to prepare the color pigments. Tempera painting is done in numerous layers from dark to light. When the icon is finished, it is left to dry for a few months and varnished with a special varnish called Olifa made from boiled linseed oil and other ingredients”. ABOUT THE ARTIST Oliver Samsinger...

Category

1990s Byzantine Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Located in Gorssel, GE

Meditative Central Russian icon depicting the Mother of God of the Sign, also titled the Znamenje of Novogrod. Typical for this centuries old iconography is that the Mother of God is...

Category