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An Innovative Carved Icon of Archangel Gabriel – A Collaborative Work

By Andrew Gould on January 26, 2017
An Innovative Carved Icon of Archangel Gabriel - A Collaborative Work

Occasionally Jonathan Pageau and I like to experiment with our work – to skirt the boundaries of historical precedent, to revive forgotten and archaic techniques, or to juxtapose ideas in new ways. This project, an elaborate mixed-media icon of Archangel Gabriel, is such an instance. It was not a commissioned project, but rather something we […]

Posted in Iconography, Minor Arts | Tagged Andrew Gould, archangel, basma, Byzantine, carved, Carving, gabriel, Icon, Jonathan Pageau, opus sectile, Orthodox, russian, steatite January 26, 2017

A Contemporary Opus Sectile Icon

By Jonathan Pageau on February 19, 2014
A Contemporary Opus Sectile Icon

Last year, I promised our readers that I would try to create an opus sectile icon, that is an icon that joins different stones together to make an image.  I recently had the chance to create something that is a mix of carving and mosaic and is probably as close as I am going to […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged archangel, Icon, Jonathan Pageau, mosaic, opus sectile, Orthodox, st-michael, steatite July 3, 2014

Opus Sectile Icons

By Jonathan Pageau on August 28, 2012
Opus Sectile Icons

There is a relatively famous image of St. Eudocia from the 10th or 11th century from Constantinople that has recently caught my attention.  It is done in a technique called Opus Sectile.  Unlike Mosaic which is the assembly of similarly shaped squares forming a pattern, Opus Sectile is when stone is cut in different shapes […]

Posted in Iconography, Minor Arts | Tagged Byzatine art, Iveron, Jonathan Pageau, mosaic, opus sectile, Orthodox Church, Ravenna, Sr. Eudocia August 28, 2012
 

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