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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

Canon: Time for a Paradigm Shift…Part II

By Todor Mitrovic on June 29, 2020
Canon: Time for a Paradigm Shift...Part II

    Are There Rules and Where to Find Them?   However, how can we discuss the concept of a list of icon-painting rules if there is the slightest possibility that it might be imaginary? First, let us recall that imaginary entities can define our behavior just as much as physically existing ones. Let us […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged canon, Canonicity, Icons, juridical, language, oral, painters' manuals, painting, rules, scholia, technical, Tradition, unwritten, unwritten painters' tradition, visual, visual language July 1, 2020

Review of “TREASURE IN A BOX: A Guide to the Icons of St Andrew” by Mary Kathryn Lowell

By Aidan Hart on March 19, 2020
Review of "TREASURE IN A BOX: A Guide to the Icons of St Andrew" by Mary Kathryn Lowell

In this newly published book, Mary Lowell describes the eighty-six icons and murals painted by Ksenia Pokrovsky (1942-2013) for St Andrew’s Orthodox church in Lexington, Kentucky. The icons and this book about them comprise a graphic account of the history of salvation, a visual catechism. The icons depict not just the major feasts of the […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged catechism tool, commissions, frescoes, iconography, Icons, Life of Christ, murals, New Testament, Old Testament, Russia, teacher, Theology March 19, 2020

An Interview with Iconographer Vladimir Grygorenko – His Recent Work and Developing Style

By Andrew Gould on August 19, 2019
An Interview with Iconographer Vladimir Grygorenko - His Recent Work and Developing Style

A. Gould: How did you first set out to be an iconographer? What led to this decision, and what was your initial artistic training?  V. Grygorenko: I began painting icons long before my conversion to Christianity, which happened back in 1991. For nine years I studied traditional oil painting in the art studio at Dnipropetrovsk […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged Andrew Gould, Byzantine, dallas, frescoes, iconographer, Icons, murals, Orthodox, russian, saint seraphim cathedral, Vladimir Grygorenko August 27, 2019

Wrestling with Angels: Icons from the Prosopon School

By Jonathan Pageau on June 17, 2019
Wrestling with Angels: Icons from the Prosopon School

The Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton MA will premiere Wrestling with Angels, an exhibition of forty-six contemporary icons by sixteen iconographers from the Prosopon School of Iconology and Iconography, July 19-October 27, 2019.  Exploring the recent renaissance of this ancient tradition, the exhibition will feature icons by the founder of the Prosopon School, Vladislav Andrejev, along with works […]

Posted in Iconography, News | Tagged andrejev, iconography, Icons, lynette hull, Museum Of Russian Icons, prosopon, Vladislav Andrejev June 17, 2019

Understanding the Icons of Holy Week

By Jonathan Pageau on April 18, 2019
Understanding the Icons of Holy Week

During Holy Week, the Orthodox faithful will see several icons in the center of the church being commemorated. Although we are used to interpret icons as stand alone objects, I have found that it is sometimes best to see the language of icons as an inter-connected web of elements which speak to each other across different icons types. 

Posted in Theory | Tagged crucifixion, holy week, iconography, Icons, Jonathan Pageau, Pascha, Symbolism April 19, 2019

A Surpassing Gentleness: An Interview with Iconographer Ann Margitich

By Andrew Gould on August 1, 2018
Iconography of Ann Margitich

It is my pleasure today to present the work of Matushka Ann Margitich, iconographer based in Santa Rosa, CA. Her work has a special place in my heart, my favorite among the many icon painters I am privileged to know. She paints the most kindly and gentle figures, with a delicate beauty of color and […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged Andrew Gould, ann margitich, egg tempera, Icons, icoographer, Orthodox, Ouspensky, Santa Rosa September 24, 2018

Towards a Great Pictorial Synthesis: Interview with Ioan Popa

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on April 16, 2018
Towards a Great Pictorial Synthesis: Interview with Ioan Popa

The following is an interview with Romanian master iconographer Ioan Popa. He’s one of the leading representatives of the contemporary icon revival in Romania, focusing in both panel and monumental fresco painting. Our conversation touches on his artistic development, aspects of the professional training of iconographers in Romania and the challenge of creative engagement with […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged Architecture, creativity, fresco, iconographer, iconography, Icons, liturgical art, panel painting, Tradition April 17, 2018

From Cubism To The Romanesque (To The Orthodox Icon?)

By Peter Brooke on August 28, 2017
From Cubism To The Romanesque (To The Orthodox Icon?)

In a comment on my article ‘The Seventh Ecumenical Council, the Council of Frankfurt & the Practice of Painting’, Baker Galloway asks if ‘to develop towards a contemporary indigenous iconography in western cultures’ we need to revisit ‘these medieval (I use the term loosely) periods in our western history, or do we start from where […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged A. Gleizes, cubism, Icons, P. Florensky, pictorial principles, romanesque September 2, 2017

Conserve or Restore? A Question of Ancestor Kisses

By Mary Lowell on July 7, 2017
Conserve or Restore? A Question of Ancestor Kisses

Conserve: To protect from loss or harm; to keep quantity and quality constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary changes. Restore: To bring back into existence or use; to return to an original condition. Close in definition, the differences when applied to art treasures can be catastrophic. Consider the botched effort to “restore” Elías […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged Andreas Ritzos, Angelos Akotantos, Cleveland Museum of Art, Conservator, Cretan School, Crete, Dean Yoder, Elena Valentinovna King, Eleousa Theotokos, fresco, Helen Collis, Heraklion, Hieromonk Seraphim Oftalmopoulou, iconographer, iconography, Icons, Ksenia Pokrovsky, Mary Lowell, mount athos, Orthodox Church, Panagia Pantovasilissa, Pskov Art Museum, Raphina, St. Andrew Antiochian Orthodox Church Lexington, St. Petersburg Academy of Art, Triglia July 9, 2017
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