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Making Art with an Axe

By Jonathan Pageau on February 14, 2017
Making Art with an Axe

As we have just passed through the season of Theophany, I have been brought to ponder what Theophany means for art, especially liturgical art. The icon of Theophany offers much to reflect upon as we gaze at the elements it brings together. Just as in our lives and in the world, in the making of Christian […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged art, baptism, Christian, iconography, roman, St-John the forerunner, theophany February 14, 2017

The Samaritan Woman, Baptism and the Hexagon

By Jonathan Pageau on July 11, 2015
The Samaritan Woman, Baptism and the Hexagon

A little while ago an iconographer wrote me to ask advice on what shape he should make the well in an icon of the Samaritan Woman, who is known in tradition as St-Photini. After answering him, I realized that this detail in the icon is a good example of how so much can be hidden […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged death, Ecclesia, foreign woman, iconography, pageau, Samaritan woman, St-Photini, Symbolism, theophany August 18, 2015

Heaven and Earth in The Icon

By Jonathan Pageau on October 7, 2014
Heaven and Earth in The Icon

This is post 3 of 4 in the series “Ancient Cosmology Today”   This is the third part of my reflections on cosmology.  Part 1: Most of the Time the Earth is Flat.   Part 2: Where is Heaven? ————————————————- One of the main purposes of the icon, in its imitation of our Lord himself, […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged ascension, cosmology, earth, Elijah, heaven, Icon, Jonathan Pageau, science, technology, theophany April 7, 2017

Aesthetic Nepsis, Enargeia and Theophany: Looking for the Christian Image

By Lynette Hull on April 30, 2014
Aesthetic Nepsis, Enargeia and Theophany: Looking for the Christian Image

 This article was written by Dr. Cornelia Tsakiridou, associate professor at LaSalle University and author of Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity.  The content is based on the talk Dr. Tsakiridou gave at Princeton University on March 13th, 2014 which was sponsored by Princeton’s Orthodox Christian Fellowship and Florovsky Society. Introduction (1) Saint Porphyrios the Kausokalyvite used to […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged art, Dr. Cornelia, Energy, Icon, iconography, nepsis, orthocox, prayer, princeton, theophany, Tsakiridou’ May 13, 2014

Theophany and What Sacred Art Does

By Jonathan Pageau on January 4, 2013
Theophany and What Sacred Art Does

You enter a silent museum.  Standing at an appropriate distance, you gaze at a piece of art set against a clinically white wall.  The art is lit as to leave no glare or shine and you as the viewer leave no shadow on it.  Enough space is allotted all around the art so to be admired without […]

Posted in Iconography, Liturgy | Tagged art, blessing cross, Christ, gallery, Holy water, Icon, iconography, Jonathan Pageau, liturgy, museum, Orthodox, theophany, Water July 14, 2014
 

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