Open AccessStudies on Two Icons Oklads with the Representation of St. Great Martyr George
Author(s) -
L. R. Bivol,
Valeriu Gabriel Ghica,
Mircea-Ionuţ Petrescu,
Gheorghe Iacob,
Eugeniu Vasile,
Mihai Buzatu,
D. Gheorghe,
Tünde Anna Kovács
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/877/1/012047
Subject(s) - george (robot) , icon , art , resolution (logic) , romanian , art history , physics , computer science , philosophy , artificial intelligence , linguistics , programming language
The work represents a comparative study of two icon oklads representing St. George killing the dragon: the first of Romanian origin according to the stamp with the silver title “12” - examples of Romanian oklads with this silver title can be found in the works of S.S. Duicu, and the second oklad with stamps that seem to be specific to Russian silverware workshops. The Romanian icon oklad depicting St. George killing the dragon has in the central-lower part two stamps - the first stamp represent the monogram of master controller or craftsman or silver master “KΠ”, and the second represents the silver title “12”. The initials of the master are written in Cyrillic letters, as well as the inscription from the upper part of the oklad “C.ΓEOPΓIE”. The investigations on the two icons oklads were achieved through XRF analysis performed with a portable X-MET 5000 Oxford analyzer (Oxford X-MET 5000 Handheld XRF Analyzer) and SEM-EDX analyzes performed on a Phillips XL-30-ESEM electron microscope using a Quanta Inspect F50, with a field emission gun (FEG) with 1.2 nm resolution and an Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectrometer (EDXS) having 133 eV resolution at MnKa. Following the analyses it was observed that the silver title 84 stamped on the Russian icon oklad does not correspond to reality.