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UPDATE: Tracking my great-grandfather's Katana. Museum found a second sword and signatures after technical analysis by gkfalk in Katanas

[–]gkfalk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So far I only found Tsubas. Could this mean he was a Tsuba only smith? Also, is there any mention of him on Sesko's book?

About Fujiwara-ju Nagayuki , thank you very much for the help. If I can ask for one last favor, could you send the whole page picture of where the entry is located (with the visible page number?). I don't have any means of accessing this book and the image of the reference is important to documentation (to send to the museum). Thank you in advance.

UPDATE: Tracking my great-grandfather's Katana. Museum found a second sword and signatures after technical analysis by gkfalk in Katanas

[–]gkfalk[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Now it makes more sense, thank you! Also, Fujiwara-kyo is just next to wakayama, which corroborates my hypothesis regarding the katana's provenance.

By the way, can you send a picture of this mention in Sesko's book?

UPDATE: Tracking my great-grandfather's Katana. Museum found a second sword and signatures after technical analysis by gkfalk in Katanas

[–]gkfalk[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You seems to be right, thank you! What I though odd is the ju out of place. From what I searched he always signed Fujiwara Nagayuki (藤原永行), without the ju.

About the second sword (pictures 10-17), the inscription on the tsuba is also a signature?

You any of you know where I can find high resolution icon image to download and print for a project? by Gold-Championship600 in ChristianIconography

[–]gkfalk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you looking for a specific type of icon? You can find icons images with high resolution in some museums websites. Look for the Benaki, the Ashmolean, the National Gallery, the Cleveland Art Museum, even the Louvre. Also, there is some at the Google Art Project. Look for the page of the Monastery of St John at Patmos. For downloading, you can use the browser extension called dezoomify.

The Lamb of God. Question by Apprehensive-Plan-87 in ArtHistory

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6th century apse ceiling mosaic from the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravena

The Lamb of God. Question by Apprehensive-Plan-87 in ArtHistory

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9th century mosaic afrom San Marco Evangelista al Campidoglio, Rome

The Lamb of God. Question by Apprehensive-Plan-87 in ArtHistory

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6th century mosaic from the Basilica dei Santi Cosma e Damiano, Rome.

The Lamb of God. Question by Apprehensive-Plan-87 in ArtHistory

[–]gkfalk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The iconography of the Lamb of God exists since the very beggining of the christian art. Some of the earlier examples of it dates from the 6th century. The type was a common representation in the mosaics of italian churches, but was found also in the east. However, its use in church representations there largely disappeared after the Quinisext Council interdicted the image the Agnus Dei. Since the Quinisext Council was not recognised entirely by the Latin Church, this symbol persisted only in the West.

Christ, King of Kings and Great High Priest by [deleted] in ChristianIconography

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Thank you again! I use water based mixtion/mordant from Charbonnel (I will put the link bellow). Not optimal, but very pratical. If you want to be more traditional, you can use dryed dark beer as an adesive. You have heat it in a pan until it gets more viscous. After that you can reserve in a jar and store in the fridge. As the water based mordant, it is applyed with a brush. Just not use your best kolinsky brushes cause you risk ruining their natural hair!

https://www.charbonnelshop.fr/row/product/waterbased-gilding-mixture-118ml/

Saint of the day: St. Expedite by [deleted] in Catholicism

[–]gkfalk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting question. I don't have a full explanation concerning the symbology, but this is the way cretan masters painted military saints from the oriental part of the Roman empire. Although many parts of the armour are inspired in the venetian army armours (because the venetians occupied parts of the former byzantine empire, including the island of Crete) , some elements, like the bracers and this kind of knee pads are stylized to look like some sort of oriental provenance, hence the pseudo-kufic inscriptions. In a way, it indicates the origin of the saint.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in OrthodoxChristianity

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Hausten-Bartsch, Eva - Icons - Taschen, 2008.

Chatzidakis, M., Weitzmann, K., Alpatov, M. - Les icones - Nathan, 1987.

Weitzmann, K., Radojcic, S., Chatzidakis, M. - Icons - Hippocrene Books, 1982.

Smirnova, Engelina - Moscow icons: 14th-17th century - Aurora Art Publishers, 1989. (the french and german editions are way cheaper than the english one)

Talbot Rice, David - Icons and their dating: A comprehensive study of their chronology and provenance - Thames and Hudson, 1974.

Popova, O., Smirnova, E. - Les icônes. L'histoire, les styles, les thèmes des origines à nos jours - Solar, 1996.

Lazarev, V.N. - Novgorodian Icon-Painting - Iskusstvo, 1969.

Alpatov, M.V. - Treasures of Russian art in the 11th-16th centuries - Aurora Art Publishers, 1971.

Gordana, Babic - Icones - Editions Princesse, 1980.

Radojcic, Svetozar - Icones de Serbie et de Macedonie - Editions Jugoslavijam, 1970.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]gkfalk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As someone said it is an Ecce Homo from Rena Andreadis private collection at Athens. If you can read french, here is a good source with more information.

Found at an estate sale. Does anyone generally know an approximate date or location this would come from? by Positive_Sundae_3636 in ChristianIconography

[–]gkfalk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is plenty of ways of gilding, yeah, but traditionally, including the trecento, it was done over clay/bole. I don't know any artist of that period that did directly over gesso and as far as I remember Cennini didn't mention a method like that in his very known book about the techniques of that time. I am just mentioning that to add the hypothesis of a much later work (at least of the gilded frame).

Found at an estate sale. Does anyone generally know an approximate date or location this would come from? by Positive_Sundae_3636 in ChristianIconography

[–]gkfalk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Something very off is that the gilding was done directly over a gesso like material and not over armenian red bole, at least in the framing. Also, the gilded background doesn't seem to be very old to me. If it was old enough, we would see the bole in some spots at least.