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Dear Pani,
Absolutely beautiful! I love Saint Nicholas. Thank you for the site.
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Pani Rose, Echoing Zenovia...nice website. Thanks--- for it brightens my morning to see those icons.  Mary Jo
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Dear Pani- wonderful iconography; do you have any idea who the iconographer was? The style looks similar to Phil Zimmerman's, whose story you posted recently.
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I thought that the East always uses Icons. I saw on the OCA website a church that had pictures of St. Nicholas in more of a Realism, Rennaisance, Art Nouveau style. I saw it saturday and can't remember which set it was in. Sometime in 2004 or 2005. Those Churches are Gorgeous!!! http://ocaphoto.oca.org/PhotoViewer.asp Those St. Nicholas icons on the site that was mentioned were awe inspiring too!
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Dear Dr. Eric,
Iconography in Orthodoxy has many variations...the strict Byzantine style, the more contemporary and realistic Cretan school, the more realistic Imperial Russian style, etc.
Hope this helps.
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I don't know, I just found the site and thought it was wonderful. Y'all know as much about this site as I do.
May God richly bless the person of individuals involved in the work and may it be a gift of evangelization for many Sweet Jesus.
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Alice,
That's very intreresting. I thought they all had to follow certain stylized rules. We were told in my art appreciation that Egyptian art was stylized. Then Greco-Roman became realistic. And during the dark ages realism was forgotten and art took not a few steps back. Until the Renaissance. I think that art during that time was just stylized to fit in with Sacred Iconography.
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Originally posted by Dr. Eric:
Alice,
That's very intreresting. I thought they all had to follow certain stylized rules. We were told in my art appreciation that Egyptian art was stylized. Then Greco-Roman became realistic. And during the dark ages realism was forgotten and art took not a few steps back. Until the Renaissance. I think that art during that time was just stylized to fit in with Sacred Iconography. During the "Dark Ages" realism was forgotten? But so-called "realism" does not show us reality at all, does it? Rather it replicates the illusions of the senses. For example, "realism" shows us receeding lines converging, and things that are distant appearing smaller. Well, "realistically" do roads really converge in the distance? Do objects far away really shrink? No, of course not; that is an illusion of the senses. Iconography shows us the inner Reality. For example, in traditional iconography lines expand in the distance. This shows us that we get bigger as we enter the Heavenly Reality; our senses expand. And the persons who are more central to the story are portrayed as larger [more important]. At certain times [17th to 20th centuries] eastern religious artists have emulated western "realistic" art, to the detriment of the transcendent. Thankfully in our time we have seen a return to the sources, a move to traditional iconography... -Daniel
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As your name suggests.  Good post, I agree. Art is usually taught with a sneer to the Church and to Religion. Even though for 1500 years the Church paid for all that art. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. Where does one learn iconography?
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Originally posted by iconophile:
Dear Pani- wonderful iconography; do you have any idea who the iconographer was? The style looks similar to Phil Zimmerman's, whose story you posted recently.
-Daniel The iconographer of the icons at the GCU Chapel was Christine Uveges of Eikona Studios in Cleveland. They're really something to see in person! Dave
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Dave- Now I am really excited; I am hoping to attend a lecture next month by the iconographers of that studio. I had previously seen one of their icons, the St John the Forerunner that belongs to the Eparchy, but this work is tremendous.
And Dr Eric- there are Iconography workshops held around the country. You could find more information by visiting the Iconofile website, a rich source of everything you need to paint icons, from materials to instruction to you name it.
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