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On The Origin of Ὁ ὬΝ in The Halo of Christ

By Fr. Steven Bigham on June 26, 2016
On The Origin of Ὁ ὬΝ in The Halo of Christ

We are so used to seeing the features of Christ in icons that we no longer pay attention to them, thinking they have always been there, as we see them, taking them for granted. We have perhaps forgotten that behind each feature there is a history and a theological meaning to discover and rediscover. So […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged Christ, history, Icon, iconology June 27, 2016

Lives of the Saints: Part Two

By Nicholas Kotar on July 9, 2014
Lives of the Saints: Part Two

This is post 2 of 3 in the series “Lives of the Saints” In a previous post regarding the Lives of the Saints, I mentioned that among zealots for historical accuracy in the Lives, there is a decided prejudice against “poets and artists” in favor of the “proper historian,” at least in the business of […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged fact, history, lives of the saints, miracles, Orthodox Church, saints, turth April 7, 2017

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

On the Relative Autonomy of the Icon: Converging Aesthetics in Early Modernism

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on December 13, 2013
On the Relative Autonomy of the Icon: Converging Aesthetics in Early Modernism

It is well to remember that a picture- before being a battle horse, a nude woman, or some anecdote- is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order. – Maurice Denis, ‘Definition du Neo-traditionisme’, Art et Critique, 1890. In the icon …Colors are colors; red is red. Colors do not imitate […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged aesthetics, history, Icons, modernism July 8, 2014
 

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