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An Icon of the Kingdom of God: The Integrated Expression of all the Liturgical Arts – Part 10: Ceremonial Implements

By Andrew Gould on August 15, 2014
An Icon of the Kingdom of God: The Integrated Expression of all the Liturgical Arts – Part 10: Ceremonial Implements

This is post 10 of 12 in the series “An Icon of the Kingdom of God” This is the tenth part of an ongoing serial (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9) This essay describes the particular and unique contribution of ceremonial implements to the […]

Posted in Minor Arts | Tagged banners, Byzantine, ceremonial, cross, fan, flabellum, greek, implement, labarum, liturgical, Orthodox, Processional, rhipidion, roman, romanian, russian, vexillum April 1, 2017

Nūn, Jonah and The Sign of The Fish

By Jonathan Pageau on August 8, 2014
Nūn,  Jonah and The Sign of The Fish

As we watch Oriental Christians in Iraq and Syria being branded, massacred, chased out of the cities they have occupied for nearly 2000 years, we shudder and pray and grind our teeth.   As we watch the burning of Churches, the defacing of icons, the destruction of shrines, even that of the Holy Prophet Jonah we […]

Posted in News, Theory | Tagged Christian, crescent, cross, Iraq, ISIS, Jonathan Pageau, Nestorian, Symbolism August 8, 2014

The Serpents of Orthodoxy

By Jonathan Pageau on April 18, 2013
The Serpents of Orthodoxy

One of the most surprising images one is faced with considering Orthodox liturgical symbolism is the bishop’s staff sporting two snakes flanking a small cross atop it.  Especially in a Protestant North American context, this image seems to hark back to ancient chthonian cults, more a wizard’s magic staff than anything Christian.  As I have […]

Posted in Liturgical Objects, Minor Arts, Theory | Tagged bronze serpent, crook, crosier, cross, crozier, crucifixion, dragon, dragons, fantasy, Jonathan Pageau, moses, nehuschtan, Orthodox, pageau, sci-fi, serpent, snake, staff, Symbolism July 14, 2014

Designing a Syrian Orthodox Panagia

By Jonathan Pageau on December 7, 2012
Designing a Syrian Orthodox Panagia

I was recently asked by a young student of St-Vladimir’s Seminary to make a Panagia which he wanted to give to his bishop.  This student is of Indian background and a Syrian Orthodox.  I have always been fascinated by Orthodoxy in India,  the stories of St-Thomas, the link with Nestorian Christianity and also their long […]

Posted in Iconography, Minor Arts | Tagged buddha, Carving, Christ, cross, hinduism, Hodegetria, Icon, iconography, India, jacobite, malankara, Mongolia, Nestorian, Orthodox, Paduk, panagia, pendant, shiva, steatite, Syriac, Syrian, theotokos, Virgin and child July 14, 2014

Branislav Đerković : Surgical Miniature

By Jonathan Pageau on October 23, 2012
Branislav Đerković : Surgical Miniature

  A few weeks ago, I introduced you to a Serbian miniaturist named George Bilak.  Here is yet another Serbian miniaturist who has recently grabbed my attention.  His name is Branislav Derkovic and he lives in Northern Kosovo, in a town called Leposavić. What struck me most of his carvings is the astounding perfection in detail, the […]

Posted in Artist Features, Liturgical Objects, Minor Arts | Tagged altar cross, athos, blessing cross, boxwood, branislav derkovic, Carving, cross, Icon, miniature, Orthodox, pectoral cross, serbia June 5, 2017
 

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