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A Retractable Icon Screen

By Aidan Hart on April 13, 2020
A Retractable Icon Screen

Parishes in the Wilderness Orthodox parishes in Britain often have to share a church with Anglican parishes. Before each service they will usually need to set up all the furnishings and icons needed for Orthodox worship, then put them all away again at the end. It’s all quite tiring, both emotionally and physically, so the […]

Posted in Iconography, Minor Arts | Tagged Aidan Hart, anglican, Byzantine, Cambridge, folding, iconostasis, retractable, russian, temporary, wrought iron April 13, 2020

Can Statuary Act as Icon?

By Aidan Hart on January 30, 2013
Can Statuary Act as Icon?

There is a long tradition of relief sculpture in the Orthodox Church’s liturgical art tradition, but very little in the way of three dimensional sculpture. Can sculpture in the round act like an icon, leading us through itself to its prototype? Although, for reasons discussed below, the Orthodox Church is unlikely to adopt sculpture in […]

Posted in Architecture, Iconography, Theory | Tagged Aidan Hart, anglican, Carving, Catholic, clay, Icon, iconography, ivory, lincoln cathedral, Orthodox, plaster, sculpture, seventh ecumenical council, st-nicodemus of the holy mountain, statuary, the rudder October 7, 2015
 

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