Romanian Handpainted Orthodox Icon Mourning Madona
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You bid a on a very beautiful naive icon on glass representing the Mourning Madona SIZE 13.5'x10" (framed) A definition of the icon on glass says it is copied after a model (izvod, "spring"). Izvod was periodically used by the old Romanian craftsmen to be copied for another icon and then was carefully preserved. Without anatomical proportions, but balanced chromatically, the models that are still used nowadays , are 200-300 years old. The writing is Cyrillic, but being illiterate, the painters distorted them and didn't always understand the holy name of scenes represented. A priest from Sibiel gathered glass icons (large size of 60/80 cm). Icons on glass appeared for the first time in Transylvania (the wealthy regions, with forests as a source of fuel-glass factories). The first icons were found near Cluj Nicula, then Sibiel Fagaras. There are elements of typical glass icons: draw a figure or more, the remaining space is filled with flower boxes, borders have twisted ropes (Nicula), or stars in Fagaras (Country Olt), Brasov (Brasov Scheii). In Moldova icons are adorned with flowers bigger than humans. Icons on glass are generally characterized by the large number of characters (there are even some evidence of complex works with more than 10 scenes). It may be a central figure such as Mother of God appearing in three ways:
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