St. great martyr George
Type:
Icon
Period:
1839 year
Dimiter T. Molerov, born in 1780 in Bansko, son of Toma Vishanov the Moler. One of the best-known painters, a representative of the Bansko school of art, a disciple of his father, influenced by the art of Athos. Author of the murals of the naos in the St Archangels' paraclete in the Rila monastery, the murals in the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin in the Pchelino dependance. In 1840 and 1841 together with his son Simeon Molerov he paints the murals and the sponsors' portraits in St. Nicholas' and St. John of Rila's paracletes in the principal church in the Rila monastery. Among D. Molerov's major achievements in iconography are the following icons: St. Nicholas (1816) from St. Archangel Michael's church in the village of Leshko, Christ All-triumphant with Angels and Cherubim (1833), The Nativity and a Crucifixion from St Elijah the Prophet's church in the village of Usenovo. He has also worked in Belgrade on an invitation by Prince Milosh Obrenovich of Serbia. He died in 1870 in Bansko.
Dimmensions (cm):
98
/ 80
/ 2.5
Location
Country: Bulgaria
Province: Blagoevgrad
Town: Bansko
Church: St. Trinity
Source
Country: Bulgaria
Province: Blagoevgrad
Town: Bansko
Church: St. Trinity
Description
A traditional waist-deep depiction of St George with the characteristic attributes and clothing and an inscription with rich baroque ornamentation.
Iconographical technique: Combined
With velatures and "probaster" on the characters' clothes. The wet-on-wet method is used for the carnation in the body parts. The gilding is rich and is made of sheet gold. There is engraving on the saint's halos.
Base material: Wood
Two softwood (fir) boards. Plaster ground applied in a thin and uniform layer.
State, restoration traces and comments
No prior restoration has been detected. The text on the wooden base on the back of the icon runs: „1904 – on 22 May at day and o'clock a powerful earthquake took place. White limewater flew, the houses slumped, all the hearths broke.”
