Icon with water-gilding on linden wood. Icon painting that employs the most suitable colors and application of egg-tempera paints. Water-gilding with gold leaf 24K.
Saint Elpis (Hope) was one of the daughters of Saint Sophia (Wisdom), who along with her two other daughters Piste (Faith) and Agape (Love), lived during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. Because they were Christians, they were put in prison and beheaded. Their memory is honoured on the 17th of September.
Icon with water-gilding on natural linden wood. The wood has been prepared in heat and gilded with gold leaf 24K, in accordance with traditional Byzantine techniques. The icon has been painted with egg-tempera paints for best performance and endurance of colors used. The colors were chosen based on studies and analyses of older icons by renowned iconographers, after ARTIS had first conducted conservation treatments on them.
Saint Elpis (Hope) was one of the daughters of Saint Sophia (Wisdom), who along with her two other daughters Piste (Faith) and Agape (Love), lived in Rome during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. As soon as the Emperor was informed that the four women were Christians, he ordered their arrest. Once they had isolated the mother, they began to interrogate the daughters. When she was brought before the emperor, the ten-year-old Elpis, told him that the tortures to come were worth enduring, because they have their hope completely on God. Then, the emperor ordered her beheading. Her memory is celebrated along with that of her mother and sisters on the 17th of September.
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