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Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church
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Item Number: 5311
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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 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
to catalogue the vast heritage of images according to 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
focus 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 called out for discussion.This is a
new title in the popular Guide "To Imagery series", and includes 400
colour illustrations; and over 380 pages.
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