May 3, 2020 Old Russian Pictorial Embroidery The gold-embroidered Byzantine fabrics were known in Russia even before the adoption of Christianity. It was from Byzantium with which firm diplomatic and trading…
April 30, 2020 Manuel Panselinos Not much is known about Manuel Panselinos. There are ongoing disputes about whether he was a real person or just a collective image. Nevertheless,…
April 26, 2020 Connection Between the Icon and the Liturgy A museum is not the right place for the icon. The icon loses much of its meaning outside the church and liturgical space, because…
April 23, 2020 Iconography of the Descent of Jesus Christ into Hell The usual iconography of the Resurrection is actually a scene of the Descent of Jesus Christ into hell, which, according to tradition, took place…
April 17, 2020 Good Friday in Iconography The events of Good Friday develop with lightning speed. The central theme of Good Friday, the theme of death, is being experienced through this…
April 12, 2020 The Lord’s Entry into Jerusalem. Iconography The Tradition of the Church, both through divine texts and the multitude of icons depicting the feast, which encapsulate almost all of its contents…
April 9, 2020 The Plant World in Iconography We have already published an article explaining that the icon is anthropocentric (Why an Icon Is Not a Portrait of a Saint), but at…
April 2, 2020 Orthodoxy in Poland. Supraśl Monastery The only surviving medieval Belarusian frescoes are those of the Supraśl Monastery, now Poland. The monastery on the Supraślanka River was founded in the…
April 1, 2020 Saints on the Right Attitude to Illness After the Fall, disease and death haunt mankind. The world has known many epidemics that have claimed the lives of many people. Some of…
March 26, 2020 The Podkubenskaya Mother of God It was the first time I’d seen such a big icon, almost as tall as a person. It has survived since the 13th century,…
March 25, 2020 A Few Words about the Image of the Cross The Week of the Cross. Today I tried to count how many images of the cross I met in a certain area of the…
March 19, 2020 All Creation Rejoiceth in Thee: The Icon of Singing On Sundays during Lent, there is the Liturgy of St. Basil the Great, which differs from the usual Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. One particularly…
