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Opus Sectile Icons

By Jonathan Pageau on August 28, 2012
Opus Sectile Icons

There is a relatively famous image of St. Eudocia from the 10th or 11th century from Constantinople that has recently caught my attention.  It is done in a technique called Opus Sectile.  Unlike Mosaic which is the assembly of similarly shaped squares forming a pattern, Opus Sectile is when stone is cut in different shapes […]

Posted in Iconography, Minor Arts | Tagged Byzatine art, Iveron, Jonathan Pageau, mosaic, opus sectile, Orthodox Church, Ravenna, Sr. Eudocia August 28, 2012
 

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