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Designing an Image of Everything

By Jonathan Pageau on July 30, 2020
The Cosmic Mountain

For many years now I have been studying the traditions of iconology, the sacred visual language which has developed in the Church.  Long before becoming an icon carver, the pattern of my thinking had already been built through meditation on the images of both the Christian East and the medieval West.  Although I am mostly […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged cosmos, creation, crucifixion, garden, iconography, iconology, Icons, Jonathan Pagaeu, mountain, paradise, Symbolism July 30, 2020

Heaven Is Round. Earth Is Square.

By Jonathan Pageau on November 13, 2014
Heaven Is Round.  Earth Is Square.

This is post 4 of 4 in the series “Ancient Cosmology Today” (This is the fourth part of a series.  Part 1: Most of The Time The Earth Is Flat.  Part 2: Where is Heaven?  Part 3: Heaven and Earth in The Icon) In my previous posts in this series I have discussed what Heaven […]

Posted in Architecture, Iconography, Liturgy, Theory, Vestments | Tagged Andrew Gould, Architecture, bible, building, cosmology, cosmos, dome, earth, flat earth, heaven, Icon, Jonathan Pageau, pantocrator, pendentive, sphere, square, square earth, Symbolism April 7, 2017

Where is Heaven?

By Jonathan Pageau on September 2, 2014
Where is Heaven?

This is post 2 of 4 in the series “Ancient Cosmology Today” (Having seen the many furious comments made by scientist types to my last article, I thought it might be necessary to slow things down a bit in order to make myself clearer, and so I will speak of sacred art more directly in […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged art, cosmology, cosmos, dante, florensky, Icons, Jonathan Pageau, science April 7, 2017
 

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