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A New Icon of St. Mary of Egypt and St. Zosimas: Notes on Form & Symbolism

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on April 14, 2016
A New Icon of St. Mary of Egypt and St. Zosimas: Notes on Form & Symbolism

A New Icon of St. Mary of Egypt and St. Zosimas Notes on Form & Symbolism  By  Fr. Silouan Justiniano   In thee, O Mother, was exactly preserved what was according to the divine image. For thou didst take the cross and follow Christ, and by thy life, didst teach us to ignore the flesh, […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged form, gradated backgrounds, iconography, landscape, pictorial devices, Romanticism, Symbolism, the Sublime April 14, 2016

Modernity and Tradition in the Religious Art of Spyros Papaloukas

By Markos Kampanis on August 10, 2015
Modernity and Tradition in the Religious Art of Spyros Papaloukas

  Spyros Papaloukas (1892-1957) was a major Greek painter of the first half of the twentieth century. Almost a legend for some, he was an innovator of Greek landscape painting. Although not mainly a church iconographer, he holds a very particular position alongside Photis Kontoglou in contemporary liturgical arts. He was born in 1892, started […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged 1930s, amphissa, athos, Byzantine, cathedral, fauvism, greek, iconography, kontoglou, landscape, markos kampanis, modern, painting, spyros papaloukas June 5, 2017

An Icon of the Kingdom of God: The Integrated Expression of all the Liturgical Arts – Part 11: Gardens, Churchyards, and Cemeteries

By Andrew Gould on October 24, 2014
An Icon of the Kingdom of God: The Integrated Expression of all the Liturgical Arts – Part 11: Gardens, Churchyards, and Cemeteries

This is post 11 of 12 in the series “An Icon of the Kingdom of God” Andrew Gould gives a unifying vision of how all the liturgical arts complement each other to create a living icon of the Kingdom of God. An Icon of the Kingdom of God: The Integrated Expression of all the Liturgical […]

Posted in Architecture | Tagged Architecture, Byzantine, cemetery, church, churchyard, courtyard, eden, forecourt, garden, gate, grave crosses, graves, islamic, landscape, Orthodox, paradise, paradise garden, persian April 1, 2017
 

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