The art of enamel miniature exists
in Limoges, France and Rostov, Russia. Miniatures are painted on ceramic
covered copper plate and heat treated in oven several times in a process.
It requires not only good painting skills, but also knowlege of traditional
sectets of each color heating and takes up to a week to create a multy-color
painting. If overheated, the paint would spread, and because it's melting
into ceramic, the whole picture would be lost. Most of silverworks are
handmade. The other field of our work is limited edition and custom made
swiss movement desk clocks.
IMPORTANT
The items shown on this website are not icons but works of art.
The Attitude of the Armenian Church to the Holy Icons
To what extent the Christology of the Armenian Church expressing iconoclastic attitudes?
Obviously consecrated paintings used in Church
are helping believers in there prays.The praying must be offered
not to material part of the image, but the Christ Himself, and before
images of Mary and the saints prays should be brought to Christ,
because the Virgin Mary and the saints can only play the role of
intermediaries. There can not be any transformation of Holy Spirit
in to particular item and therefore there is no miracles or healings
power that can lie with any painting. That is why those paintings
in Church placed beyond of worshipers reach because to avoid any
kissing or touching attempts by some believers in expectation to
receive something that it can’t bear as a material object. There
is no any painting in any Church that deserve more attention than
any painting in other Church. All of them are same in there helpful
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