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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

The Dragons that Almost Exist

By Jonathan Pageau on September 29, 2016
The Dragons that Almost Exist

Explaining the icon of St-George slaying the dragon to a 4 year old is amazing. Explaining the icon of St-George to a 10 year old is excruciating — “Yeah, but dragons don’t exist, do they?”. Do they? When someone tells you that dragons don’t exist or that monsters don’t exist, what is it they are […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged dragon, icono, iconography, Jonathan Pagaeu, monster, st-george September 29, 2016

Two images of the Church and why they should not be confused.

By Jonathan Pageau on October 28, 2015
Two images of the Church and why they should not be confused.

Christological and Pneumatological Images of the Church In early Christian art, there developed a series of complementary visual relationships which I have discussed on numerous occasions and have come to often characterize as the right hand and the left  hand of Christ.  These elements, like the ass and the ox, St-Peter and St-Paul, the good […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged ascension, church, Jonathan Pagaeu, Pentecost, Symbolism, theotokos October 28, 2015

Andreas Ritzos and OAJ Nexus

By Mary Lowell on July 1, 2013
Andreas Ritzos and OAJ Nexus

  When Andrew Gould launched the Orthodox Arts Journal (OAJ) in June of 2012, he had in mind the clearinghouse model it has become. It is a service that informs and engages readers in helping to create a culture that values quality Orthodox arts. It is hoped by this effort that a market will emerge […]

Posted in Iconography, News | Tagged Andreas Ritzos, Anna Gouriev, Carving, iconography, Jonathan Pagaeu, Jonathan Pageau, Ksenia Pokrovsky, Mary Lowell, Orthodox Arts Journal July 8, 2014
 

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