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Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero, and general manager of Consumer Affairs, Commerce and Handicrafts, María Dolores Alarcon, presented on Wednesday, December 18, a temporary exhibition of Byzantine icons, organized by the Museum of the Roman Theatre and the Regional Center Crafts.
The presentation will take place at 11 am in the exhibition hall of the Roman Theatre in Cartagena, in the Town Hall.
The Mysterion exposure.
The vision of the transcendent in Byzantium runs until January 13, 2014, coinciding with the celebration of Christmas.
The show aims to move the viewer's vision of Christmas in Byzantium through three icons master craftsman of the Region of Murcia, Mariano Hernández, director Mhega Iconography Workshop.
The artisan collects all the artistic tradition of the icon to bring into inspired originals dating back to medieval times and modern works.
The show has enjoyed the cooperation of Byzantinist researcher Jaime Vizcaino.
Here you can also see the icon of the Annunciation as a prototype that takes a work by artist Vlassis Tsotsonis where the archangel wears a stole rich similar to those carried by the Byzantine emperors to mark the festivities jeweled.
Also the icon of the Nativity, inspired by a school board of the famous Russian artist Andrei Rublev, dating from the fifteenth century, and follows the traditional iconography, set by apocryphal writings as the Gospel of James (17, 3-18), so the scene is set in a central one Montanna cave where the Virgin lying in bed after lighting the Savior, and finally the Trííptico of The lives of Madonna and Christ modeled a work dating from the mid-thirteenth century preserved in Egyptian monastery of St. Catherine at Sinai.
The icon is a holy image which attempts to represent the invisible through the visible.
The representation of gold backgrounds, eliminating any reference to space and time, suggesting the heavenly light and symbolizes his divine nature.
The characters are represented in the front position of any movement fleeing because they are perfect and only imperfection can lead to the desire to change state.
Mariano Hernandez reflects this artistic tradition and moves to Dodekaorton, the cycle of Byzantine liturgical feasts where, precisely, the feast commemorating the birth of Christ, is the principal.
Mystérion Thus, the hidden becomes visible.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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