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Sacred Space, Sacred Art and The Power of Women

By Jonathan Pageau on June 2, 2016
Sacred Space, Sacred Art and The Power of Women

We live in a confused time.  Many of the basic foundations which hold the world together have been made fragile.   Up/down, center/periphery, inside/outside have all been eroded in their power to frame existence as we watch floodwaters rise around us.  One of the foundations systematically attacked through sophisticated rhetoric and political ideology is the complementary […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged garments of skin, iconography, theotokos, women June 3, 2016

Two images of the Church and why they should not be confused.

By Jonathan Pageau on October 28, 2015
Two images of the Church and why they should not be confused.

Christological and Pneumatological Images of the Church In early Christian art, there developed a series of complementary visual relationships which I have discussed on numerous occasions and have come to often characterize as the right hand and the left  hand of Christ.  These elements, like the ass and the ox, St-Peter and St-Paul, the good […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged ascension, church, Jonathan Pagaeu, Pentecost, Symbolism, theotokos October 28, 2015

Steatite Icons and Material Symbolism

By Jonathan Pageau on April 28, 2014
Steatite Icons and Material Symbolism

One of the points many OAJ contributors have been trying to bring across is that the medium out of which sacred art is made and the artful human act of fabrication are important on a symbolic and theological level.  This question of materiality and production have become crucial ones in our age of mechanical reproduction […]

Posted in Iconography, Minor Arts, Theory | Tagged Carving, Icons, Jonathan Pageau, Kalavrezou, steatite, stone, Symbolism, theotokos, Virgin August 18, 2015

Some New Musical Repertoire in Honor of the Mother of God

By Vladimir Morosan on March 18, 2014
Some New Musical Repertoire in Honor of the Mother of God

One of the rewards of working with a group of professional-level singers such as Archangel Voices (www.archangelvoices.com) is the opportunity to explore and record, often for the very first time, some newly composed or newly arranged Orthodox sacred choral repertoire. Even more rewarding is to hear on occasion that our efforts have met with approbation […]

Posted in Music | Tagged Annunciation, Church music, English, Orthodox, Orthodox Music in English, russian, theotokos July 3, 2014

Seat of Wisdom

By Jonathan Pageau on August 12, 2013
Close-up of seat of wisdom

A few months ago, Aidan Hart wrote a wonderful article on the possibility of statuary acting as icon.  He did this in the context of having sculpted a model for a stone version of the Seat of Wisdom.  Just as he was posting his article, I was also receiving a commission for a wooden carving […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged Carving, gold, iconography, Jonathan Pageau, medieval, Seat of Wisdom, sign of the Theotokos, theotokos, Throne of Wisdom, wood July 8, 2014

Designing a Syrian Orthodox Panagia

By Jonathan Pageau on December 7, 2012
Designing a Syrian Orthodox Panagia

I was recently asked by a young student of St-Vladimir’s Seminary to make a Panagia which he wanted to give to his bishop.  This student is of Indian background and a Syrian Orthodox.  I have always been fascinated by Orthodoxy in India,  the stories of St-Thomas, the link with Nestorian Christianity and also their long […]

Posted in Iconography, Minor Arts | Tagged buddha, Carving, Christ, cross, hinduism, Hodegetria, Icon, iconography, India, jacobite, malankara, Mongolia, Nestorian, Orthodox, Paduk, panagia, pendant, shiva, steatite, Syriac, Syrian, theotokos, Virgin and child July 14, 2014

A Carver’s Commission

By Jonathan Pageau on June 26, 2012
A Carver's Commission

  At the beginning of this story is my bishop, fittingly also the man who received me into the Orthodox Church when he was still a parish priest.  He asked me if I could carve an “engolpion” – a large pendant worn by bishops, usually bearing an icon of  The Virgin and Child. He asked […]

Posted in Iconography, Minor Arts | Tagged bas-relief, Byzantine icon, carved icon, Carving, englopion, Icon, ivory, Jonathan Pageau, Kisii, steatite, theotokos July 10, 2014
 

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