A wonderful Serigraph icon with a double varnish layer and high quality paint depicting the Synaxis / Gathering of the Archangels. An icon aesthetically upgraded with collective value due to the handmade artificial ageing it has undergone. This is an exact copy of a Byzantine hagiography.

Ark — in iconography — a deepened middle field on the front surface of the icon board. The shape more or less repeats the shape of the board. Depth — up to 5 mm. The edges of the board that are not occupied by the ark are called fields, the transition from fields to the ark is called husk. There are no clear and generally accepted theories about the reasons for the appearance of the ark.