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Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church
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Description for Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Paperback. Catalogues the heritage of images according to type and subject, from the ancient at the Monastery of Saint Catherine in the Sinai to those from Greece, Constantinople, and Russia. This book includes chapters such as role of icons in the Orthodox liturgy and on common iconic subjects, including the fathers and saints of the Eastern Church. Num Pages: 384 pages, 400 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AGR; HRCC8. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 136 x 25. Weight in Grams: 710.
An icon (from the Greek word eikon, "image") is a wooden panel painting of a holy person or scene from Orthodox Christianity, the religion of the Byzantine Empire that is practiced today mainly in Greece and Russia. It was believed that these works acted as intermediaries between worshipers and the holy personages they depicted. Their pictorial language is stylized and primarily symbolic, rather than literal and narrative. Indeed, every attitude, pose, and colour depicted in an icon has a precise meaning, and their painters - usually monks - followed prescribed models from iconographic manuals. The goal of this book is ... Read more
An icon (from the Greek word eikon, "image") is a wooden panel painting of a holy person or scene from Orthodox Christianity, the religion of the Byzantine Empire that is practiced today mainly in Greece and Russia. It was believed that these works acted as intermediaries between worshipers and the holy personages they depicted. Their pictorial language is stylized and primarily symbolic, rather than literal and narrative. Indeed, every attitude, pose, and colour depicted in an icon has a precise meaning, and their painters - usually monks - followed prescribed models from iconographic manuals. The goal of this book is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Getty Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Santa Monica CA, United States
ISBN
9780892368457
SKU
V9780892368457
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99-50
About . Tradigo
Alfredo Tradigo is the artistic director and art critic for Famiglia Cristiana magazine and has devoted thirty years to research on Christian iconography.
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