9. Icon on glass, "Lamentation of Jesus", workshop from the outskirts of Sibiu, mid decades of the 19th century, coming from the collection of the world bridge vice-champion Coriolan Neamțu, rare piece.

The icon represents in the central scene the entombment of Jesus Christ: two apostles hold the shroud at the head and feet, two angels lift it from the front. In the secondary plan, Mary is surrounded by the holy women and archangels, seraphim float in the air and, above the cross, the "thrones" - angels inscribed in medallions, the four evangelists indicated by symbols. In the upper register, between the medallions and the arcade of the vault, we distinguish landscapes, on the left the Mount Golgotha. The entire scene is framed by a border. (M.B.)

Dimensions

width 73.5 cm, height 57.5 cm

Description

tempera and gold foil on glaze, whitewashed frame, with loop

PROVENANCE

Coriolan Neamțu was born in 1925 in Satu-Mare, in a family of Transylvanian intellectuals. He was a graduate of the Law Faculty and the Academy of High Commercial and Industrial Studies in Bucharest. His special interest in bridge allowed him to overcome professional dissatisfactions, inherent in the communist regime, and to passionately dedicate himself to bridge. He was an active promoter and organizer of bridge in Romania, a tournament director, and a bridge teacher. Coriolan Neamțu wrote and edited the magazine "Expert Bridge" between 1970-1983 (the year when bridge was officially banned in Romania), printed and distributed in hundreds of copies almost clandestinely. A journalist by profession, with contributions to magazines and newspapers in the country and abroad, he wrote several bridge literature works: "Competitive Bridge" (1973), "Entertaining Bridge" (1982), "Start Bridge" (1990), "Humorous Bridge" (1991), and "Bridge Conventions" (1991). As a great lover of animals, the author also published a book in 1979 titled "The Dog, Man's Friend", which was widely successful at the time. In 2000 he published a volume of maxims and reflections titled "Restitutio in absurdum". He was a member of the Jockey Club Romania, the International Association of Bridge Journalists, vice-world champion of the IBPA bridge in 1992 at Salsomaggiore, and editor of the bridge column in the "Free Time" magazine, the weekly supplement of the "Free Romania" newspaper.

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