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The Byzantine Sculpture of Michael Lucas

By Andrew Gould on February 19, 2018
The Byzantine Sculpture of Michael Lucas

The following is an interview with sculptor Michael Lucas. Mr. Lucas is an accomplished artist who currently focuses on Byzantine-inspired carving in stone. Andrew Gould is working with Michael on an ongoing project to build a baptistery in South Carolina. A. Gould: You started iconographic carving late in your life. Tell us about your background as an artist. […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged Byzantine, Icon, iconography, michael lucas, penn state, relief, sculptor, sculpture, stone carving February 19, 2018

Our Lady of Lincoln Sculpture

By Aidan Hart on June 17, 2014
Our Lady of Lincoln Sculpture

I had often wondered if a three dimensional sculpture could be made to act like an icon, leading the viewer to the holy person depicted rather than acting as a self-contained art object. And so I was pleased when I was commissioned to design and carve a two metre (6′-6″) high stone sculpture of the […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged Aidan Hart, England, iconography, limestone, lincoln cathedral, Our Lady of Lincoln, pilgrimage, polychrome, romanesque, sculpture, shrine August 24, 2015

Can Statuary Act as Icon?

By Aidan Hart on January 30, 2013
Can Statuary Act as Icon?

There is a long tradition of relief sculpture in the Orthodox Church’s liturgical art tradition, but very little in the way of three dimensional sculpture. Can sculpture in the round act like an icon, leading us through itself to its prototype? Although, for reasons discussed below, the Orthodox Church is unlikely to adopt sculpture in […]

Posted in Architecture, Iconography, Theory | Tagged Aidan Hart, anglican, Carving, Catholic, clay, Icon, iconography, ivory, lincoln cathedral, Orthodox, plaster, sculpture, seventh ecumenical council, st-nicodemus of the holy mountain, statuary, the rudder October 7, 2015
 

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