Fer Tamudo
Incredible work by the best microminiaturist in the world
I´ll show you a place that is both surprising and unique: the Miniature Museum. The artist is Ukrainian, the best microminiaturist the world. It is a permanent collection in the structure Maragda Ordino-Principality of Andorra. The works can only be seen through a microscope, with a lens of up to 300 increases, made of precious metals, mostly gold and platinum, in seeds, grains of rice, paper and even a hair.It is easier to pass a camel through the eye of a needle ... when something seems impossible to achieve. Another of his works is the man through life, symbolized by a golden thread, 400 times thinner than a human hair! Amazing work.
I want to see everything and I know a little. Also in the same structure, on the ground floor, you will find the Iconographic Museum. Magnificent exhibition of Orthodox Christian icons of the most important Russian and Ukrainian schools from the XVI - XIX century. Sizes 70 polychrome wooden Christ in Spanish schools XI to XIX century. It is one of only three museums of icons that currently exist in the West. I encourage you to visit it and take more pictures, mine although illustrative, not entirely good, are just to give you an idea of what you will see. And to photograph through a microscope requires his technique ...
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