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Painting as Prayer, The Art of A. Sophrony Sakharov

By Christabel Helena Anderson on April 8, 2021
Painting as Prayer, The Art of A. Sophrony Sakharov

Editorial note: This is the third part of a series on the artistic path and iconographic legacy of Saint Sophrony the Athonite (1896-1993) as seen through a collection of monographs written by Sister Gabriela, a member of his monastic community in Essex, England.  The previous articles, Seeking Perfection in the World of Art can be […]

Posted in Iconography, Reviews, Theory | Tagged Architecture, art, athonite, Christ, church, Eastern Orthodox, essex, fresco, Icon, icon painting, iconographer, iconography, liturgical, liturgical art, liturgy, Monastery of St. John the Baptist, mount athos, Orthodox, Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox, Sr Gabriela, St. Silouan the Athonite, St. Sophrony the Athonite, Tradition April 8, 2021

Narthex Murals at St John of the Ladder

By Seraphim O'Keefe on March 31, 2021
Narthex Murals at St John of the Ladder

Introduction This article is the second in a series documenting the mural project at St John of the Ladder Orthodox Church in Greenville, South Carolina. This beautiful temple was designed by Andrew Gould. The previous article presented the murals in the two smaller rooms adjacent to the church’s sanctuary. Here, I will present the recently […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged art, Byzantine, Eastern Orthodox, fresco, Icon, icon painting, iconography, murals, saint john of the ladder, seraphim o'keefe, silicate March 31, 2021

A New Icon – Saint Katherine Teaching the Philosophers of the Alexandrian Court

By Andrew Gould on February 3, 2021
A New Icon – Saint Katherine Teaching the Philosophers of the Alexandrian Court

I would like to share an interesting project in which I collaborated with iconographer Natalia Aglitskaya to develop a new icon composition. The project was a commission from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, to commemorate their fiftieth anniversary of coeducation, which occurred in 2019. The college wanted a memorial to the admission of women to […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged alexandria, Andrew Gould, hartford, Icon, lighthouse, Natalia Aglitskaya, natasha aglitskaya, pharos, Philosophers, Russian Orthodox, Saint Katherine, trinity college February 3, 2021

Canon: Time for a Paradigm Shift…Part III

By Todor Mitrovic on July 6, 2020
Canon: Time for a Paradigm Shift...Part III

    On the Need for the New Paradigm   First, the suggested shift in paradigm is not just playing with words, nor is it merely for amusement or for increasing our vocabulary. Neither are we following some fashionable intellectual trend. From the conventional meaning of the term paradigm, I would emphasize its ‘active’ semantic aspects. These suppose […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged artistic language, canon, church art, cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor, Icon, icon painting, paradigm, rules, Tradition July 6, 2020

Canon: Time for a Paradigm Shift

By Todor Mitrovic on June 23, 2020
Canon: Time for a Paradigm Shift

Editorial note: This post is the first of a series of four which touch on the topic of “canonicity” in icon painting. The series consists of an expanded version of an article previously published in Serbian and in Russian. * The author, Todor Mitrović, is one of the foremost representatives of the icon painting revival […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged canon, Canonicity, Icon, iconography, juridical, law, prescriptions, rule July 1, 2020

Brilliant Darkness: On St. Dionysios the Areopagite’s Blue Halo

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on April 13, 2019
Brilliant Darkness: On St. Dionysios the Areopagite's Blue Halo

  …Timothy, my friend, my advice to you as you look for a sight of the mysterious things, is to leave behind you everything perceived and understood, everything perceptible and understandable, all that is not and all that is, and, with your understanding laid aside, to strive upward as much as you can towards union […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged areopagite, Byzantine, dionysios, Icon, iconography, pseudo-dionysios, silouan justiniano, Symbolism, uncreated light April 15, 2019

Seeking Perfection in the World of Art: The Artistic Path of Father Sophrony

By Christabel Helena Anderson on January 3, 2019
Seeking Perfection in the World of Art: The Artistic Path of Father Sophrony

Editorial note: Due to its little-known subject matter and the book’s current limited availability in some regions, the following is a summary, rather than a standard review, of Seeking Perfection in the World of Art: The Artistic Path of Father Sophrony1 – Sister Gabriela’s monograph on the artistic journey and iconographic legacy of Elder Sophrony. […]

Posted in Iconography, Reviews, Theory | Tagged Architecture, athonite, book review, Elder Sophrony, England, English Iconography, essex, Fr. Sophrony, Icon, iconography, liturgical art, monastery, mount athos, Orthodox Church, pencil drawings, russian, Russian Orthodox, St. Silouan, St. Silouan the Athonite, St. Sophrony the Athonite, Tolleshunt Knights, Tradition March 31, 2021

The Icon of The Last Judgement

By Jonathan Pageau on September 24, 2018
The Icon of The Last Judgement

The icon of the Last Judgement is one of the most complex Christian images.  As depicting the final things, it is a synthesis of the cosmic mystery. As an image of judgement, it is also the place where everything is resolved by Christ.  From the very first moments in my burgeoning interest in iconology, I […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged Icon, iconography, iconology, Jonathan Pageau, last judgement, Symbolism September 26, 2018

An American Shrine to Honor the Russian Royal Martyrs

By Andrew Gould on July 13, 2018
An American Shrine to Honor the Russian Royal Martyrs

It has been my particular honor to create a magnificent shrine and reliquary for the Russian Royal Martyrs. The shrine was commissioned by an American convert to Orthodoxy as a gift to the Hermitage of the Holy Cross, a Russian Orthodox monastery in West Virginia, USA. It was installed in time to commemorate the centenary […]

Posted in Minor Arts | Tagged Andrew Gould, Czar Nicholas II, Hermitage of the Holy Cross, Icon, iconography, inlay, Jonathan Pageau, kiot, marquetry, Natalia Aglitskaya, Passion Bearers, reliquary, romanov, Royal Martyrs, Russian Orthodox, saints, shrine, West Virginia March 26, 2019

The Making of a New Icon: “Christ Breaking the Bonds of Animal Suffering”

By Aidan Hart on May 7, 2018
The Making of a New Icon: “Christ Breaking the Bonds of Animal Suffering”

Sometimes I am commissioned to paint an icon of a saint for whom nothing yet exists, or at least no satisfactory icon. This is usually a pre-schism Western saint. But more rarely, the subject is a new theme, a new emphasis or combination. This was the case when Dr Christine Nellist approached me to create […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged Aidan Hart, animal kingdom, animals, Byzantine, Christ breaking the bonds of suffering, dog, Icon, iconography, Orthodox May 7, 2018
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