May 14, 2020 Icon and Hesychasm. Andrei Rublev and Murals of the Dormition Cathedral in Vladimir Andrei Rublev was another, no less brilliant artist of the era of Hesychasm. He was the complete opposite of Theophanes the Greek, although they…
May 13, 2020 Icon and Hesychasm. Murals of the Transfiguration Church in Novgorod The Divine Light is one of the main theological notions in iconography. The teachings of the Hesychasts imparted a special depth, sharpness, and fullness…
May 3, 2020 Old Russian Pictorial Embroidery The gold-embroidered Byzantine fabrics were known in Russia even before the adoption of Christianity. It was from Byzantium with which firm diplomatic and trading…
April 7, 2020 One-day Churches of Russia. Why Did They Build Them During Epidemics? Once there were a considerable number of them in Russia. The very name “one-day” (russian – obydenny) sounds quite unusual. And indeed, these are…
April 2, 2020 Orthodoxy in Poland. Supraśl Monastery The only surviving medieval Belarusian frescoes are those of the Supraśl Monastery, now Poland. The monastery on the Supraślanka River was founded in the…
March 25, 2020 A Few Words about the Image of the Cross The Week of the Cross. Today I tried to count how many images of the cross I met in a certain area of the…
March 18, 2020 The Ascension of Alexander the Great, or A Few Words on the Carvings of the St. Demetrius Cathedral in Vladimir The St. Demetrius Cathedral in Vladimir was built in the late 12th century, during the heyday of the Vladimir Suzdal Principality, which by that time…
February 11, 2020 Why Do Some Saints Have Square Halos? Indeed, we can see such images of saints, mainly of the Byzantine period, on the walls of ancient temples. Standing or kneeling figures with…
February 11, 2020 “I Was Offended and Decided to Leave the Temple Without Getting Baptized” – The Story of An Artist Who Painted More Than Fifty Paintings About St. Xenia of Petersburg One day, my life started to remind me of a broken record. One more spin, and it’s the same. It’s like you exist in…
February 10, 2020 15 Drawings of the Life of Saint Xenia of Petersburg Drawings by Alexander Prostev. Source: https://foma.ru/15-kartin-iz-zhizni-svyatoy-ksenii-peterburgskoy.html
