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Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church by Alfredo Tradigo
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ISBN: 9780892368457 | 384 pages | 20 Mb
Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church Alfredo Tradigo
Publisher: Getty Publications
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 color 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 ...
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