Santa Teresa di Lisieux
Private collection
Igorski paints icons following the oldest models and techniques: the face is not the artist's invention but the transmission of a thousand-year-old canon. This icon of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, made on private commission, is a rare subject in Byzantine iconography, mostly reserved for Eastern saints.
Thérèse Martin, a Discalced Carmelite nun who lived in Lisieux in 19th-century France, died at only 24, leaving behind the autobiography "Story of a Soul" and the teaching of the "Little Way": holiness reached not through great deeds but through trust and love lived out in the simplest gestures of everyday life. Declared a Doctor of the Church in 1997, she is depicted with the cross and roses, her traditional attribute.
Made in egg tempera with natural pigments on a wood panel, with the halo and background covered in gold on bole, following the same complete technique of the Byzantine iconographic tradition.
A commissioned icon: from € 100
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