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  • Country: Spain
  • Category: Painting
  • Technique: Others
  • Medium: Canvas
  • Theme: Portrait
  • Measurements: 8.66 x 8.66 in
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  • Tags: imagen, jesucristo, iconografia, icono

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Tempera de huevo, oro acrílico.

El Santo Rostro o Santa Faz es una de las reliquias más famosas del cristianismo. Según la tradición, durante la Pasión de Cristo, una mujer se quitó su velo para secar con él la cara del Mesías. La imagen de la cara de Jesucristo quedó impresa en el pañuelo de lino y éste milagrosamente se conservó a través de los siglos, convirtiéndose en un objeto de culto.
La mujer más tarde sería llamada Verónica, cuya etimología mixtificada se hace derivar de la combinación entre el latín verum (verdadero) y el griego Eikon (icono, imagen), \"la verdadera imagen\".

Artist information

I´m a painter of traditional techniques: oil, acrylic, tempera, pastels, colored pencils and mixed tecniques.
I was born on a sunny morning (at least I think so) of July in Riga, the capital of a small country -Latvia next to the Baltic Sea. My mother told me I was the quietest child she had seen in her life. At age of four I started to \\\"read\\\" the volumes of encyclopedias we had in the livingroom, I was obsessed with any kind of images I could find in the books. I think I started...

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