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Review of “TREASURE IN A BOX: A Guide to the Icons of St Andrew” by Mary Kathryn Lowell

By Aidan Hart on March 19, 2020
Review of "TREASURE IN A BOX: A Guide to the Icons of St Andrew" by Mary Kathryn Lowell

In this newly published book, Mary Lowell describes the eighty-six icons and murals painted by Ksenia Pokrovsky (1942-2013) for St Andrew’s Orthodox church in Lexington, Kentucky. The icons and this book about them comprise a graphic account of the history of salvation, a visual catechism. The icons depict not just the major feasts of the […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged catechism tool, commissions, frescoes, iconography, Icons, Life of Christ, murals, New Testament, Old Testament, Russia, teacher, Theology March 19, 2020
 

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