The Mystical Language of Icons

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Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 080286497X
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mystical Language of Icons by : Solrunn Nes

Download or read book The Mystical Language of Icons written by Solrunn Nes and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-10 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Mystical Language of Icons

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Icons and the Mystical Origins of Christianity

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Publisher : Weatherhill, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781898942207
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis Icons and the Mystical Origins of Christianity by : Richard Temple

Download or read book Icons and the Mystical Origins of Christianity written by Richard Temple and published by Weatherhill, Incorporated. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A History of Icon Painting

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ISBN 13 : 9785723503052
Total Pages : 287 pages
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Download or read book A History of Icon Painting written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church

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Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892368457
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (684 download)

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Book Synopsis Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church by : Alfredo Tradigo

Download or read book Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church written by Alfredo Tradigo and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Holy Image, Hallowed Ground

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Publisher : Getty Trust Publications: J. P
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Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Holy Image, Hallowed Ground by : Robert S. Nelson

Download or read book Holy Image, Hallowed Ground written by Robert S. Nelson and published by Getty Trust Publications: J. P. This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isolated in the remote Egyptian desert, at the base of Mount Sinai, sits the oldest continuously inhabited monastery in the Christian world. The Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai holds the most important collection of Byzantine icons remaining today. This catalogue, published in conjuction with the exhibition Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from November 14, 2006, to March 4, 2007, features forty-three of the monastery's extremely rare--and rarely exhibited--icons and six manuscripts still little-known to the world at large. The exhibition and catalogue bring to life the central role of the icon in Byzantine religious practices. Themes include the icon's status as holy object, the ways in which the icon sanctified the place of worship, and the monks' quest for the holy. The Greek Orthodox monastery at Mount Sinai not only functioned as a major pilgrimage site for centuries but was also a cultural crossroads at the center of the shifting sands of ecclesiastical and secular politics. The accompanying essays explore how the monastery's contact with the outside world, through pilgrimage, resulted in aesthetic exchanges between the monastery and Coptic, Crusader, and Islamic art; and between the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic communities in Europe.

Another Brush with God

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Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0819226858
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (192 download)

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Book Synopsis Another Brush with God by : Peter Pearson

Download or read book Another Brush with God written by Peter Pearson and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Icons

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Publisher : Paraclete Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9781612618319
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (183 download)

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Book Synopsis Icons by : Faith Riccio

Download or read book Icons written by Faith Riccio and published by Paraclete Press (MA). This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lovely gift book about approaching and praying with icons everyday has over 60 full color images of Sr. Faith's icons, each paired with a scripture and an inspirational word. Experience how these beautiful icons help us live a good life, what they have to offer, what they did for Sr. Faith, and what they can do for you. Icons are an invitation to go beyond our world; to take a moment to look as through a window into heaven. The space they create gives us a wonderful and open access to reach out toward God and know him deeply in a new way. They are meant to enrich our spiritual lives. They were created to touch and form us and have an ability to soothe and confront where necessary. They provide a place to gather our wandering attention and direct it toward God. Click here to see the book trailer!

Behold the Beauty of the Lord

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Publisher : Ave Maria Press
ISBN 13 : 1594715092
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Book Synopsis Behold the Beauty of the Lord by : Henri J. M. Nouwen

Download or read book Behold the Beauty of the Lord written by Henri J. M. Nouwen and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Sacred Doorways

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Publisher : Paraclete Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9781557253071
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Sacred Doorways by : Linette Martin

Download or read book Sacred Doorways written by Linette Martin and published by Paraclete Press (MA). This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linette Martin's style and simplicity of language are transparent and clear, so rare in other similar writings on the topic. -Metropolitan Emilianos Timiadis

The Meaning of Icons

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Publisher : St Vladimir's Seminary Press
ISBN 13 : 091383677X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (138 download)

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Book Synopsis The Meaning of Icons by : Léonide Ouspensky

Download or read book The Meaning of Icons written by Léonide Ouspensky and published by St Vladimir's Seminary Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Sacred Nature

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Publisher : HarperOne
ISBN 13 : 9780062434388
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)

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Book Synopsis Sacred Nature by : Lydia Hess

Download or read book Sacred Nature written by Lydia Hess and published by HarperOne. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the Inspiring Wisdom and Wild Beauty of Sacred Nature The profound beauty of the natural world speaks directly to our souls, awakening in us a sense of the sacred, the divine, and the mysterious. Now, seekers of all ages can experience the soul-deep pleasure and restorative effect of contemplating the natural world, wherever they may be, as they lose themselves in coloring the wonder-inspiring illustrations in Sacred Nature. Facing the meditative images, wisdom-infused words invite readers to further color away stress and anxiety as they immerse themselves in the mysticism and magic of the natural world.

Icons and the Mystical Origins of Christianity

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Publisher : Element Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781852301866
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Icons and the Mystical Origins of Christianity by : Richard Temple

Download or read book Icons and the Mystical Origins of Christianity written by Richard Temple and published by Element Books Limited. This book was released on 1990 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses the imagery of icons as a basis for exploring the true mystical source of the Christian faith.

Icons in the Western Church

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Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814646840
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Book Synopsis Icons in the Western Church by : Jeana Visel

Download or read book Icons in the Western Church written by Jeana Visel and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the Eastern tradition of Christianity, the eikon, or religious image, has long held a place of honor. In the greater part of Western Christianity, however, discomfort with images in worship, both statues and panel icons, has been a relatively common current, particularly since the Reformation. In the Roman Catholic Church, after years of using religious statues, the Second Vatican Council’s call for “noble simplicity” in many cases led to a stripping of images that in some ways helped refocus attention on the eucharistic celebration itself but also led to a starkness that has left many Roman Catholics unsure of how to interact with the saints or with religious images at all. Today, Western interest in panel icons has been rising, yet we lack standards of quality or catechesis on what to do with them. This book makes the case that icons should have a role to play in the Western Church that goes beyond mere decoration. Citing theological and ecumenical reasons, Visel argues that, with regard to use of icons, the post–Vatican II Roman Catholic Church needs to give greater respect to the Eastern tradition. While Roman Catholics may never interact with icons in quite the same way that Eastern Christians do, we do need to come to terms with what icons are and how we should encounter them.

The Art of the Icon

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Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (989 download)

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Book Synopsis The Art of the Icon by : Paul Evdokimov

Download or read book The Art of the Icon written by Paul Evdokimov and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Icon and Devotion

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Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 186189550X
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Book Synopsis Icon and Devotion by : Oleg Tarasov

Download or read book Icon and Devotion written by Oleg Tarasov and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2004-01-03 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 in halftones 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.

Praying with Icons

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Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 160833077X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Book Synopsis Praying with Icons by : Jim Forest

Download or read book Praying with Icons written by Jim Forest and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: