April 18, 2020 396 0 Weep Not For Me, O Mother Icon The topic of Passion in Orthodox iconography is not as diverse as in Western European art. However, since the late 15th century Russian iconostasis…
April 17, 2020 287 0 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 268 0 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 1469 1 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 6, 2020 12666 5 An Old Icon of the Mother of God of the Sign Has Started to Exude Myrrh in the Diocese of Tula An 18th-century icon of the Mother of God of the Sign has started to exude myrrh in a ruined Church of St. Michael the Archangel…
March 26, 2020 203 0 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,…
February 24, 2020 227 0 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 19, 2020 129 0 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 559 0 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 342 0 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…