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A Byzantine Master in the New World – An Interview with Iconographer Dionysios Bouloubassis

By Thomaida Hudanish on January 7, 2022
golden Christ, Pantocrator

Dionysios Boloubassis developed a reputation as a talented iconographer in Greece before he immigrated to the United States in 2013. Over the past ten years he built up a new portfolio of work in America, which together with his churches in Greece, demonstrates his experience and skill in carrying on the iconographic tradition. ORTHODOX ARTS […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged America, Byzantine, Dionysios Bouloubassis, fresco, greek, iconographer, murals, Orthodox January 7, 2022

Biblical Visions: Exterior Murals at the Monastery of the Transfiguration

By Hélène Bléré on May 3, 2021
Biblical Visions: Exterior Murals at the Monastery of the Transfiguration

Between 2016 and 2018 I created a series of wall paintings with scenes from the Old Testament for the exterior walls of a chapel in Dordogne, France. The chapel is located in the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration which was founded by Archimandrite Elie and is a dependency of the Monastery of Simonos Petras on […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged Architecture, Byzantine, Dordogne, Eastern Orthodox, Exterior wall painting, france, fresco, Hélène Bléré, Icon, iconographer, iconography, keim, murals, Old Testament, Orthodox, Orthodox Church, Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration May 11, 2021

Narthex Murals at St John of the Ladder

By Seraphim O'Keefe on March 31, 2021
Narthex Murals at St John of the Ladder

Introduction This article is the second in a series documenting the mural project at St John of the Ladder Orthodox Church in Greenville, South Carolina. This beautiful temple was designed by Andrew Gould. The previous article presented the murals in the two smaller rooms adjacent to the church’s sanctuary. Here, I will present the recently […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged art, Byzantine, Eastern Orthodox, fresco, Icon, icon painting, iconography, murals, saint john of the ladder, seraphim o'keefe, silicate March 31, 2021

Painting the Iconographic Murals at Saint Gregory Palamas Monastery

By Vladimir Grygorenko on September 15, 2020
Painting the Iconographic Murals at Saint Gregory Palamas Monastery

I have been asked to paint the iconographic murals in the new chapel at St. Gregory Palamas Monastery in Perrysville, Ohio. This chapel, dedicated to St. Gregory Palamas, is yet another good example of contemporary Orthodox architecture. It unites the traditional appearance of Byzantine interiors with the familiar exterior detailing of rural vernacular architecture. It […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged Byzantine, chapel, frescoes, gregory palamas monastery, iconography, murals, ohio, Orthodox, russian, Vladimir Grygorenko March 17, 2021

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

Fr Gregory Kroug – An Exhibition Honoring the 50th Anniversary of his Repose

By Seraphim O'Keefe on October 8, 2019
Fr Gregory Kroug – An Exhibition Honoring the 50th Anniversary of his Repose

  The Exhibition In late June, I was blessed with the opportunity to spend a week in Paris, attending an exhibition in honor of the 50th anniversary of the repose of iconographer monk Gregory Kroug. The event ran from May 14th through June 30th, and included a curated exhibition of Kroug’s iconography displayed in the […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged Byzantine, exhibition, frescoes, icon painting, iconograpahy, Kroug, Krug, Leonid Ouspensky, murals, Orthodox, russian, seraphim o'keefe October 8, 2019

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

A Matter of “Ethos”: An Interview with the Painter Markos Kampanis

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on May 12, 2016
A Matter of “Ethos”: An Interview with the Painter Markos Kampanis

We often forget that our contemporary art, although the offspring of the 20th century revolutionary avant-garde, has its own set of artistic dogmas, its form of “orthodoxy”, so to speak. Ironically, although the avant-garde might have shattered the stifling shackles of the Academy, it has now itself become another form of restrictive academy, forming an […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography, Theory | Tagged contemporary art, icon painting, liturgical art, modernism, murals, printmaking, Secular Art, Tradition June 5, 2017

The Archbishop Dmitri Memorial Chapel – An Interview with Iconographer Vladimir Grygorenko

By Andrew Gould on April 16, 2015
The Archbishop Dmitri Memorial Chapel - An Interview with Iconographer Vladimir Grygorenko

The Archbishop Dmitri Memorial Chapel is an ongoing project at St. Seraphim Cathedral in Dallas, Texas. It is especially interesting as it is a chapel designed to honor the earthly remains of the locally venerated archbishop. We are pleased to offer this interview with master iconographer Vladimir Grygorenko, who designed and painted the chapel. A. […]

Posted in Architecture, Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged archbishop dmitri, Byzantine, cathedral, dallas, iconography, keim, memorial chapel, murals, Orthodox, russian, seraphim, silicate paint, vladika, Vladimir Grygorenko June 5, 2017
 

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