RUGĂCIUNEA DIN BRONZ. PROCESUL DE RESTAURARE A UNEI ICOANE DIN ALIAJ DE CUPRU
THE BRONZE PRAYER. THE PROCESS OF RESTORATION OF A COPPER ALLOY ICON

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a certain type of icons found on the territory of our country, especially in the Russian old believers communities. Bronze icons are on their own, as individual objects, but also as components of complex creations, they are usually positioned centrally, in spaces specially designed for their insertion in the main support of the object usually it is made of wood. The article describes the bronze icon but also the restoration operations performed to save it. The object presented is connected to certain customs of one of the existing ethnic groups in Dobrogea, an ethnic group that coexisted in harmony with other nationalities, this land washed by the waters of the Danube and the Black Sea being known for its varied interethnic mosaic.

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