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f"Three Saints"
written by Ustinian Tilov
Catalog # 1.27
Medium: tempera on wood.
Hand-made according to the
Bulgarian Iconographic tradition and
techniques.
Possible heights:
A) 19 - 21 cm
B) 25 - 27 cm
C) 38 - 40 cm
As for the width, the proportions of the original icon will
be kept.
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Judging by the iconographic features, the saints depicted are St Gregory the Theologian, St John Chrysostom and St Basil the Great. The saints are shown full-face, standing, in an attitude of blessing, holding closed Gospels in their left hands. To avoid the monotony of three identical figures, the painter has enlivened their garments by way of different colours. All three of them wear bishops’ vestments . St Gregory’s chiton nis gray and his polystaurion is in reddish brown and white squares, arranged in a chess-board pattern, forming crosses. St John wears a red chiton and a white sakkos on which small gray encircled crosses are barely noticeable.
St Basil’s chiton is pale blue and his white phelonion is decorated with large black crosses. The three faces are of the same type with small, close set eyes and wrinkled foreheads. The faces are painted dark ochre which is slightly paler on the prominent parts.
The background is in two colours – gold above and blue, imitating marble, below.
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