The Mystical Language Of Icons

Author : Solrunn Nes
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780802864970

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The Mystical Language of Icons by Solrunn Nes Pdf

Solrunn Nes, one of Europe's most admired iconographers, illuminates the world of Christian icons, explaining the motifs, gestures, and colors common to these profound symbols of faith. Nes explores in depth a number of famous icons, including those of the Greater Feasts, the Mother of God, and a number of the better-known saints, enriching her discussion with references to Scripture, early Christian writings, and liturgy. She also leads readers through the process and techniques of icon painting, showing each step with photographs, and includes more than fifty of her own original works of art.

Author : Jim Forest
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Icons
ISBN : 9781608330775

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Praying with Icons by Jim Forest Pdf

Author : Léonide Ouspensky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Christianity and art
ISBN : UVA:X002162589

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Theology of the Icon by Léonide Ouspensky Pdf

This is the most comprehensive introduction available to the history and theology of the icon, and is the standard text upon which most modern studies of iconography are based. It includes more than the basic theory of the transfiguration of beauty and the sanctification of art. It is a fundamental element in the entire body of Orthodox Tradition. n this two-volume work, author Leonid Ouspensky provides the reader with a deep and serious approach to the mystery of the sacred image. He surveys the development of the sacred art of the Christian East from its beginnings in catacomb art through the iconoclastic controversy of the eighth and ninth century. Drawing especially on the Russian Orthodox tradition, the author studies a large number of texts with care and in great detail. He includes an analysis of the flowering of early Russian iconography, tracing its later development and the state of the art today. The 51 black and white photo illustrations, along with the four-panel foldout and six color plates, will enable the reader to appreciate the Orthodox icon with an informed mind and open heart. Volume I, originally published in 1978, has been updated by the author and contains large sections of new material [Publisher description]

Author : Richard Temple
Publisher : Weatherhill, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Church history
ISBN : 189894220X

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Icons and the Mystical Origins of Christianity by Richard Temple Pdf

Back in print after ten years, this searching work uses the imagery of icons as the basis for an exploration of the true mystical source of the Christian faith. Richard Temple points out that icons themselves are essentially mystical at heart, for they are the key to an underground stream of knowledge aimed at the civilization of the whole person -- body, soul, and spirit -- that developed from Platonic thought, the school of Alexandria, and the Orphic mysteries. As the author discusses the meaning of the icons depicted in this volume, the richness and profundity of a lost tradition is gradually and hauntingly revealed.

Author : Richard Temple
Publisher : HarperElement
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Christian art and symbolism
ISBN : UCSC:32106015924985

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Icons and the Mystical Origins of Christianity by Richard Temple Pdf

Author : Gilles Weissmann
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781844487943

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Techniques of Traditional Icon Painting by Gilles Weissmann Pdf

A detailed and practical guide focusing on the traditional methods of icon painting and its rich history. With all you would ever want to know, from the materials you need and how to prepare a panel to adding inscriptions and finishing off. Part of the icons symbolism is transmitted in the techniques used to create it and this is explored throughout, with in depth information, step-by-step demonstrations, invaluable advice and many superb examples of finished icon paintings.

Author : George Kordis,Giōrgos Kordēs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Icon painting
ISBN : 1935317091

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Icon as Communion by George Kordis,Giōrgos Kordēs Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Icon painting
ISBN : 5723503057

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A History of Icon Painting by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henri J. M. Nouwen
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781594715099

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Behold the Beauty of the Lord by Henri J. M. Nouwen Pdf

This twentieth anniversary edition (more than 111,000 copies sold) brings Henri J.M. Nouwen's writings on Eastern Orthodox icons to a new generation and adds to the Nouwen collection published by Ave Maria Press. With a foreword by Br. Robert Lentz, a well-known painter of contemporary icons, this classic Nouwen book invites readers to pray with four Russian icons with their eyes open by emphasizing seeing or gazing, which are at the heart of Eastern spirituality. Nouwen's meditations reveal his viewing of the icons not as decorations, but holy places. The book includes four full-color icons for private contemplation or meditation.

Author : Peter Pearson
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780819226853

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Another Brush with God by Peter Pearson Pdf

Step-by-step instructions for painting icons, from original drawings through finished product. This is the sequel to the authors previous work, A Brush with God, for advanced beginners, intermediate, and advanced iconographers. It presents greater detail and instructions for creating entirely new icons. One major feature of this book is the full-page sketches that artists can photocopy and use as the basis of their own icons, providing a unique and much-requested resource. Includes eight full-color plates of the author's original icons. Chapters and topics include: Introduction and contemporary reflections on iconography, spirituality, and technique. Highlighting folds on full-length figures, including black and white renderings of draped legs, arms, and torsos. Architectural and landscape renderings in Byzantine iconography, including background shadow and highlighting techniques, plus inverse perspective. Festal icons, involving multiple figures, landscapes, architecture, furniture, vegetation, and animals. Construction of heads, figures, and analysis of whole compositions, sacred geometry and proportion.

Author : Alfredo Tradigo
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Christian saints in art
ISBN : 0892368454

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Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church by Alfredo Tradigo Pdf

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.

Author : Léonide Ouspensky,Vladimir Lossky
Publisher : St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Christianity and art
ISBN : 9780913836774

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The Meaning of Icons by Léonide Ouspensky,Vladimir Lossky Pdf

"The nature of the icon cannot be grasped by means of pure art criticism, nor by the adoption of a sentimental point of view. Its forms are based on the wisdom contained in the theological and liturgical writings of the Eastern Orthodox Church and are imtimately bound up with the experience of the contemplative life. The present work is the first of its kind to give a reliable introduction to the spiritual background of this art. The introduction into the meaning and language of the icons by Ouspensky imparts to us in an admirable way the spiritual conceptions of the Eastern Orthodox Church which are often so foreign to us, but without the knowledge of which we cannot possibly understand the world of the icon." -- Back cover.

Author : C.A. Tsakiridou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317119173

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Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity by C.A. Tsakiridou Pdf

Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity presents a critical, interdisciplinary examination of contemporary theological and philosophical studies of the Christian image and redefines this within the Orthodox tradition by exploring the ontological and aesthetic implications of Orthodox ascetic and mystical theology. It finds Modernist interest in the aesthetic peculiarity of icons significant, and essential for re-evaluating their relationship to non-representational art. Drawing on classical Greek art criticism, Byzantine ekphraseis and hymnography, and the theologies of St. Maximus the Confessor, St. Symeon the New Theologian and St. Gregory Palamas, the author argues that the ancient Greek concept of enargeia best conveys the expression of theophany and theosis in art. The qualities that define enargeia - inherent liveliness, expressive autonomy and self-subsisting form - are identified in exemplary Greek and Russian icons and considered in the context of the hesychastic theology that lies at the heart of Orthodox Christianity. An Orthodox aesthetics is thus outlined that recognizes the transcendent being of art and is open to dialogue with diverse pictorial and iconographic traditions. An examination of Ch’an (Zen) art theory and a comparison of icons with paintings by Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko and Marc Chagall, and by Japanese artists influenced by Zen Buddhism, reveal intriguing points of convergence and difference. The reader will find in these pages reasons to reconcile Modernism with the Christian image and Orthodox tradition with creative form in art.

Author : Matthew Kapstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780226424927

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The Presence of Light by Matthew Kapstein Pdf

There is perhaps no greater constant in religious intuition and experience than the presence of light. In spiritual traditions East and West, light is not only ubiquitous but something that assumes strikingly similar forms in altogether different historical and cultural settings. This study examines light as an aspect of religiously valued experiences and its entailments for mystical theology, philosophy, politics, and religious art. The essays in this volume make an important contribution to religious studies by proposing that it is misleading to conceive of religious experience in terms of an irreconcilable dichotomy between universality and cultural construction. An esteemed group of contributors, representing the study of Asian and Western religious traditions from a range of disciplinary perspectives, suggests that attention to various forms of divine radiance shows that there is indeed a range of principles that, if not universal, are nevertheless very widely occurring and amenable to fruitful comparative inquiry. What results is a work of enormous scope, demonstrating compelling cross-connections that will be of value to scholars of comparative religions, mysticism, and the relationship between art and the sacred. Contributors: * Catherine B. Asher * Raoul Birnbaum * Sarah Iles Johnston * Matthew T. Kapstein * Andrew Louth * Paul E. Muller-Ortega * Elliot R. Wolfson * Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan * Hossein Ziai

Author : Oleg Tarasov
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781861895509

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Icon and Devotion by Oleg Tarasov Pdf

Icon and Devotion offers the first extensive presentation in English of the making and meaning of Russian icons. The craft of icon-making is set into the context of forms of worship that emerged in the Russian Orthodox Church in the mid-seventeenth century. Oleg Tarasov shows how icons have held a special place in Russian consciousness because they represented idealized images of Holy Russia. He also looks closely at how and why icons were made. Wonder-working saints and the leaders of such religious schisms as the Old Believers appear in these pages, which are illustrated with miniature paintings, lithographs and engravings never before published in the English-speaking world. By tracing the artistic vocabulary, techniques and working methods of icon painters, Tarasov shows how icons have been integral to the history of Russian art, influenced by folk and mainstream currents alike. As well as articulating the specifically Russian piety they invoke, he analyzes the significance of icons in the cultural life of modern Russia in the context of popular prints and poster design.