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Deisis – An Iconographic Installation

By Federico José Xamist on November 4, 2015
Deisis – An Iconographic Installation

The truth is that when I was offered the possibility to set up a small exhibition on the occasion of the 34th Symposium of Art and Theology, organised by the School of Theology, University of Navarra, I did not have sufficient material, as I was moving and dismantling my workshop. On the other hand, as […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged art installation, Byzantine, deesis, deisis, Federico José Xamist, greek, Icon, Orthodox November 4, 2015

Santa Maria Antiqua – The Heart of the East in the Centre of Rome

By Jonathan Pageau on January 15, 2014
Santa Maria Antiqua – The Heart of the East in the Centre of Rome

    (Editor’s note:  This article was submitted by Fr Paul Walliker, an Antiochian Orthodox Priest who has a Master of Visual Art (Painting) from Monash University, Australia. The focus of his project for his Masters Degree was Santa Maria Antiqua. He also recently attended the conference held at the British School of Rome on Santa Maria Antiqua)  […]

Posted in Architecture, Iconography | Tagged anastasis, archeology, deisis, frescoes, history, iconography, Icons, paleochristian, rome, typology July 3, 2014

Iconography In The Landscape

By Jonathan Pageau on November 25, 2013
Iconography In The Landscape

One of the points I have been hammering at since I began writing for OAJ, is how symbolism is not just an arbitrary set of codes and meanings but is rather the very place where logos encounters the world, a coming together of different levels of reality. (See for ex, my article on the Recovery […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged crucifixion, deisis, Icon, rome, st-John Lateran, st-Mary Major, st-Paul Outside the Walls, st-Peter in Vatican July 8, 2014

Carving a Reliquary

By Jonathan Pageau on February 1, 2013
Carving a Reliquary

There are certain Medieval forms which have always been with me, seeming to affect an almost hypnotic attraction.  The casket reliquary or “chasse” is one of these.  Shaped like a tomb, but also suggesting a basilica church, these reliquaries most probably originate in early insular (Gaelic/Celtic/Pictish/Saxon) art. Most of us know this shape primarily from […]

Posted in Iconography, Liturgical Objects, Minor Arts | Tagged anastasis, casket, casket reliquary, celtic, chasse, deisis, insular, ivory, Jonathan Pageau, knotwork, pageau, relic, reliquary, steatite, zoomorphic July 14, 2014

Mercy on The Right. Rigor on The Left

By Jonathan Pageau on January 15, 2013
Mercy on The Right.  Rigor on The Left

This is post 1 of 3 in the series “The Right and Left Hand in Iconography” Jonathan Pageau examines the recurrence of left and right hand symbolism in traditional art and how they create a pattern of engagement in the world. Mercy on The Right. Rigor on The Left St-Peter on The Right. St-Paul on […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged adam and eve, anastasis, cain and abel, Carving, crucifixion, deisis, iconography, iconology, Jonathan Pageau, judgement, left, left hand, mercy, pantocrator, right, right hand, rigor, sinai April 1, 2017
 

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