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…
March 16, 2020 The Icon – Iconoclasm, the Seventh Council, and after that In the year 767 Stephen of Constantinople saw soldiers trampling an icon. He objected and was told it was ok – it was only a…
March 14, 2020 The Icon History: Was Iconography contrary to the Second Commandment? Did you ever watch a classic iconographer paint (“write”} an icon? This requires many layers of egg tempura paint, each properly prayed over. The iconographer…
March 11, 2020 Why an Icon Is Not a Portrait of a Saint The icon always depicts a person: there is not a single icon that is not anthropological in its content. Even Angels are portrayed as…
March 5, 2020 The Reverse Perspective in Iconography One of the difficulties in understanding the iconographic image, particularly ancient Russian icons, is the special way of depicting space and objects on it….
February 26, 2020 Sister Joanna (Reitlinger) One of the last icons painted by Sister Joanna (Julia Reitlinger) was The Walking on Waters, and her whole life was, in fact, such…
February 24, 2020 The Last Judgment – What Is a Church? Today is commonly known as Meatfare Sunday, the last day to eat meat before Pascha; it’s western equivalent used to be Carnival (from Latin…
February 24, 2020 Unusual Icons of Saints That Few Know About The painting of a new icon – be it a copy of a known sample or a new image – is akin to its…
February 19, 2020 Gurias Nikitin Gurias Nikitin had a rare feeling of plasticity for a medieval painter. He knew how to make figures dynamic, lively and, ultimately, temperamental. The…
February 17, 2020 The Divnogorskaya Sicilian Icon of the Mother of God Stops Deadly Epidemic The Divnogorskaya Sicilian Icon of the Mother of God was named after the place of its original location and its glorification in the Holy…
February 12, 2020 Simon Ushakov No other icon painter got such contradictory opinions about his work as Simon Ushakov. Did he ruin the iconographic tradition, or was he its…
February 12, 2020 An Icon as a Profile Picture: Is It Blasphemy or Not? Question: Can I use an icon as my profile picture? Is it blasphemy or not? Answer: An icon is a sacred image. It is…
