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31 July 2006, 18:06St. Petersburg masters to make over 100 relief icons for the blind to be exhibited in Louvre
St. Petersburg, July 31, Interfax – Masters of the St. Petersburg-based Naslediye studio will produce within a year and a half over 100 relief copies of old icons to be exhibited next to their originals at the Holy Russia exhibition in Louvre.
The studio’s leader Alexander Sofinsky informed Interfax that the exhibition planned for 2008 in Paris will feature icons from the collections in the Hermitage, Tretyakov Gallery and Novgorod museum preserve.
‘In old times, relief copies of icons were made in many Orthodox monasteries and churches so that not only sighted people but also the blind could feel the image of God’, Sofinsky said.
Today, relief icons produced by the Naslediye studio are found in many Orthodox churches, monasteries and museums in Russia, Jerusalem, Finland, Norway, Germany, USA, France, Switzerland, and Great Britain, including the royal collection at the Buckingham Palace. |
