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The Roman Theatre Museum hard starts the Christmas program to encourage tourists to visit Cartagena and this attractive historic monument. Mysterion.
The vision of the transcendent in Byzantium is the new temporary exhibition is open from Wednesday until 13 January, in addition to the permanent exhibition and other activities organized these days.
This collection, also organized by the Regional Center Handicrafts of the Region of Murcia, evokes the public to experience Christmas in Byzantium, entering this world, as claimed Wednesday in presenting the Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero.
And it is through three icons master craftsman Mariano Hernández, director workshop Mhega iconography.
The Cartagena artist uses this technique to capture in her three works inspired by original dating from medieval and modern times.
He has also had the collaboration of the Byzantine scholar researcher Jaime Vizcaino.
The pieces relate with large doses of colorful three moments or meaningful images related to this season.
The Annunciation is the first icon shown to the public in this collection.
Hernández is based on the work of Vlassis Tsotsonis to portray the archangel with a jeweled stole similar to those carried by the Byzantine emperors.
The Nativity
is the other icon in this exhibition, inspired by the Russian artist Andrei Rublev, recreating the scene of the Virgin lying after lighting the Savior in a mountain.
The last icon of this sample is the triptych of The Lives of Virgin and Christ, and modeled a work dating from the mid-thirteenth century and is preserved in the Egyptian monastery of St. Catherine at Sinai.
CÃ "MO PREPARE THE BYZANTINE ICON
About three months it took the artist to develop the ultimate icon Triptych, the largest and perhaps the most important.
A time when Mariano Hernández design these icons with the same method used at the time. Museum In one case this development process is explained in detail so that the visitor can understand the difficulty comprehending the work and know first hand the steps have been followed.
To work it is used as a table base made from basswood, pine, oak or chestnut.
Prepare by sanding and plaster on cotton, linen or tarlatana and, later, the stripe pattern is applied.
In order to sweeten the table the Armenian bole and gold leaf applied with water and used oil.
The last step is to paint the icon by quenching so that the pigment, binder and solvent are mixed.
The pigments are ground with a glass muller and combined with the binder to be applied on the brushes.
THE ARTIST
Mariano Hernández, a priest of the Diocese of Cartagena, began his training as iconographer in 70 in Cuenca, but also took classes in this field around the world including Greece, Russia, France or Italy.
One of the courses I attended was the Iconography Workshop of Byzantine Ukrainian rite Church of Saint Germain in Paris.
Currently, this member of the Spanish Association of Yaroslav Icon, Iconography Workshop directs Mhega whose active work has earned him the appointment as Honorary Craftsman Murcia.
The artist follows the trail of the ancient image-makers, based not only on their models, but also in their technical and spiritual requirements.
The presentation ceremony, in addition to the Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero, and artist, Mariano Hernandez, himself visited the Security council and Trade, Mariano García, and the director of the Museum of the Roman Theatre, Elena Ruiz.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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