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Fr. Philippe Péneaud: Romanesque Iconography Today

By Jonathan Pageau on February 24, 2016
Fr. Philippe Péneaud: Romanesque Iconography Today

Fr. Philippe Péneaud is a priest for the Antiochian Orthodox Church and a prolific woodcarver living in the South of France. Having studied in the great tradition of European woodcarving with Raymond Labeyrie, he converted to Orthodoxy in the 1980s under the influence of Leonid Ouspensky’s “Theology of The Icon” as well as through the works of others […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged Carving, france, medieval, romanesque June 5, 2017

Most of The Time The Earth Is Flat.

By Jonathan Pageau on July 16, 2014
Most of The Time The Earth Is Flat.

This is post 1 of 4 in the series “Ancient Cosmology Today” Science, modern science that is, has engulfed nearly our entire gaze. It has become the transparent self-effacing tableau on which we experience the world, the glasses we wear to judge the truth, the standard we hold against our experience. Self-obvious to most, the […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged art, cosmology, Icons, Jonathan Pageau, medieval, modern, science, techne April 7, 2017

Seat of Wisdom

By Jonathan Pageau on August 12, 2013
Close-up of seat of wisdom

A few months ago, Aidan Hart wrote a wonderful article on the possibility of statuary acting as icon.  He did this in the context of having sculpted a model for a stone version of the Seat of Wisdom.  Just as he was posting his article, I was also receiving a commission for a wooden carving […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged Carving, gold, iconography, Jonathan Pageau, medieval, Seat of Wisdom, sign of the Theotokos, theotokos, Throne of Wisdom, wood July 8, 2014

The Apocalypse Art Prize

By Mary Lowell on May 30, 2013
The Apocalypse Art Prize

“The first rule of art is beauty.” So begins “A Primer of Pictorial Devices in Medieval Painting” written by artist Gloria Thomas. The primer is a guide to competitors in the Apocalypse Art Prize. The prize is $10,000 and the deadline for entry is December 31, 2013. Complete information about the prize and how to […]

Posted in News | Tagged analogy, competition, Gloria Thomas, Mary Lowell. apocalypse prize, medieval, revelations July 14, 2014

An Icon of the Kingdom of God: The Integrated Expression of all the Liturgical Arts – Part 8: Vestments

By Andrew Gould on April 12, 2013
An Icon of the Kingdom of God: The Integrated Expression of all the Liturgical Arts – Part 8: Vestments

This is post 8 of 12 in the series “An Icon of the Kingdom of God” This is the eighth part of an ongoing serial (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7)     In the New Jerusalem, there is no distinction between indoors and outdoors. It is a […]

Posted in Liturgical Objects, Minor Arts, Vestments | Tagged Byzantine, damask, embroidery, greek, liturgical, medieval, Orthodox, ottoman, phelonion, russian, sakkos, Vestments April 1, 2017

Medieval Art from Catalonia

By Jonathan Pageau on November 27, 2012
Medieval Art from Catalonia

The utmost french speaking resource website for Orthodoxy, www.orthodoxie.com, has a very beautiful Flickr stream of the National Museum of Catalonia.  It is an amazing showcase of Western icons, liturgical objects, frescoes and furniture from the Early Middle Ages. When looking at the images, what strikes me the most is the boldness in color bringing about a […]

Posted in Church Furniture, Iconography, Minor Arts | Tagged altar, apse, catalonia, Christ in glory, evangelists, flikr, fresco, hieratic, Icon, iconography, medieval, orthodoxie.com, pantocrator, reliquary, tabernacle, Virgin with child, western July 14, 2014

New Wall Painting

By Aidan Hart on October 2, 2012
New Wall Painting

In August I completed a wall painting on the east wall of my medieval parish church, The Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Fathers, Shrewsbury, England. On some of the other walls there already exist simple medieval wall paintings, dating from around 1380 A.D., but the east wall was newly plastered during recent restoration work […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged Aidan Hart, art, Christ, church design, evangelists, fresco, glory, Icon, iconography, medieval, Orthodox, secco August 25, 2015
 

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