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Heaven Is Round. Earth Is Square.

By Jonathan Pageau on November 13, 2014
Heaven Is Round.  Earth Is Square.

This is post 4 of 4 in the series “Ancient Cosmology Today” Jonathan Pageau uses a phenomenological approach to explain traditional cosmology and its symbolism, explaining in what manner it is crucial to our experience of being in the world. Most of The Time The Earth Is Flat. Where is Heaven? Heaven and Earth in […]

Posted in Architecture, Iconography, Liturgy, Theory, Vestments | Tagged Andrew Gould, Architecture, bible, building, cosmology, cosmos, dome, earth, flat earth, heaven, Icon, Jonathan Pageau, pantocrator, pendentive, sphere, square, square earth, Symbolism April 7, 2017

An Icon of the Kingdom of God: The Integrated Expression of all the Liturgical Arts – Part 8: Vestments

By Andrew Gould on April 12, 2013
An Icon of the Kingdom of God: The Integrated Expression of all the Liturgical Arts – Part 8: Vestments

This is post 8 of 12 in the series “An Icon of the Kingdom of God” Andrew Gould gives a unifying vision of how all the liturgical arts complement each other to create a living icon of the Kingdom of God. An Icon of the Kingdom of God: The Integrated Expression of all the Liturgical […]

Posted in Liturgical Objects, Minor Arts, Vestments | Tagged Byzantine, damask, embroidery, greek, liturgical, medieval, Orthodox, ottoman, phelonion, russian, sakkos, Vestments April 1, 2017

Rescuing the Art of Ecclesial Embroidery

By Mary Lowell on October 16, 2012
Rescuing the Art of Ecclesial Embroidery

Editor’s Note: Our readers may remember the piece we published previewing the Hexaemeron Inc. workshop on ecclesial embroidery. This piece is a follow-up, now that the course has been completed.   “And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of […]

Posted in Iconography, Minor Arts, Vestments | Tagged American Needlepoint Guild, Dalmatic of Charlemagne, embroidery, Embroidery Guild of America, Holy Trinity-St. Sergiev Posad Lavra, Living Waters Catholic Refection Center, Mary Lowell, Moscow Orthodox Theological Academy, National Academy of Needlearts, Olga Fishchuk, Palaiologan Renaissance, Pictorial Embroidery Department, Thessaloniki Epitaphios July 14, 2014

Embroidery for the Modern Church

By Fr. Patrick O'Rourke on June 28, 2012
Embroidery for the Modern Church

In 1995, a small unused room in the Icon Painting School at the Moscow Orthodox Theological Academy was converted into a studio for a single student interested in the lost art of church embroidery. This became the Pictorial Embroidery Department of the Icon Painting School housed in a larger facility within the famous Trinity-St. Sergius […]

Posted in Minor Arts, Vestments | Tagged chuch embroidery, church, Eastern Orthodox, embroider, Kiev, liturgical sewing, Olga Fishchuk, Orthodox, Orthodox Arts Journal July 10, 2014
 

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