Holy Trinity Icon

This piece of rare iconographic rigor transcends the devotional dimension, claiming its place in the sphere of sacred decorative heritage artifacts.

Made using electroforming — a workshop technique associated with art nouveau jewelry manufactures and 19th-century imperial protocol objects — the work proposes a three-dimensional translation of Andrei Rublev's famous composition, through a subtle topography of volumes and textures. The copper, purified and shaped with engineering precision, is subsequently coated in layers of noble silver and gold accents, in a visual scenography with liturgical intensities.

The angelic halos, profiled in gold and encrusted with Bohemian crystal, offer an almost Byzantine luminous reverberation, evoking altarpieces from the Montenegrin treasures and the legacy of the goldsmith's greenhouses at Catherine's Palace.

The solid toned oak frame, with sculptural twisted wood and a protective glass mount, gives the ensemble an object-like status as a cabinet. Not a simple icon, but a sculptural entity bordering on — between royal ornament, reliquary, and relic.

An exceptional specimen, a rarity in the contemporary collector's items circuit, comparable in intensity to works sold in the "Icons and Eastern Orthodox Works of Art" sections of Christie's and Sotheby's.