Icons & Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church

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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 may be practiced lately principally in Greece and Russia. It used to be believed that these works acted as intermediaries between worshipers and the holy personages they depicted. Their pictorial language is stylized and primarily symbolic, reasonably than literal and narrative. Indeed, each attitude, pose, and color depicted in an icon has a precise meaning, and their painters–frequently monks–followed prescribed models from iconographic manuals.
The goal of this book is to catalogue the vast heritage of images in line with iconographic type and subject, from the most ancient at the Monastery of Saint Catherine in the Sinai to those from Greece, Constantinople, and Russia. Chapters focal point on the role of icons in the Orthodox liturgy and on common iconic subjects, including the fathers and saints of the Eastern Church and the life of Jesus and his followers. As with other volumes in the Guide to Imagery series, this book includes a wealth of color illustrations in which details are known as out for discussion.

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