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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

Bell Ringing in Scripture and Liturgy, from BLAGOVEST BELLS

By Andrew Gould on September 3, 2013
Bell Ringing in Scripture and Liturgy, from BLAGOVEST BELLS

Dear Readers, We have had a request for articles on liturgical bell ringing, so I am pleased to offer this excellent piece prepared by Mark Galperin and John Burnett of BLAGOVEST BELLS: Dear Brothers and Sisters: Church bell ringing is an intrinsic and permanent part of the Orthodox liturgical and musical tradition. It is deeply rooted […]

Posted in Liturgical Objects, Minor Arts, Music | Tagged bell ringing, bellringing, bells, cymbals, david, hatsotser, liturgical, Old Testament, Orthodox, psalms, russian, scriptural, scripture, shofar, zvon July 8, 2014

The Recovery of the Arts (pt.2): From the Garden to the City

By Jonathan Pageau on July 23, 2012
The Recovery of the Arts (pt.2): From the Garden to the City

This is post 2 of 3 in the series “The Recovery of The Arts” My first article in this series proposed a vision of the arts based on Old Testament, Greek and finally the Orthodox Christian worldview. As this series on the recovery of the arts develops I will be exploring several underlying questions of […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged Ark, arts, Babel, carpenter, Christ, Eastern Orthodox, Noah, Old Testament, techne April 1, 2017
 

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