October 14, 2020 484 0 How Russian Icon Painting Glorified the Protection of the Mother of God For a long time the Protection of the Holy Virgin, or the Pokrov* has been especially revered in the Russian land. Notably, the early…
October 6, 2020 575 0 Details in Iconography: Understanding the Significance of an Earring An icon is, first of all, a holy image before which we stand in prayer. It is also a visibly expressed life experience of…
September 30, 2020 372 0 What Is Stroganov Icon-Painting School? Dmitry Trofimov, head of the Tsargrad creative workshops answers. Almost every icon has a customer, but only one family of patrons gave their name…
September 23, 2020 106 0 Kazanskaya-Kaplunovskaya Icon of the Mother of God Feast Days: September 24 July 21 HISTORY OF THE ICON At the end of the 17th century lived a pious priest, Fr. Ioann Ilyich…
August 27, 2020 358 0 Icon of the Mother of God of Częstochowa The Mother of God is looking sorrowfully from the wonderworking icon. Her face is dark. There is a bloody wound on her cheek. She…
August 20, 2020 459 0 Tenderness Icon of The Mother of God The Seraphim-Diveyevo “Tenderness” Icon of The Mother of God belonged to Saint Seraphim of Sarov and was his cell icon, he called it “Joy…
August 15, 2020 132 0 “Hodegetria” of Kostroma Icon of the Mother of God The miraculous Smolensk-Kostroma Icon of the Mother of God “Hodegetria” is one of the shrines of the Bogoyavlensky Convent in Kostroma. The fresco icon,…
July 30, 2020 224 0 Svyatogorsk Icon of the Mother of God During the reign of John the Terrible in 1563, a native of Voronichi, a suburb of Pskov, a fifteen-year-old shepherd Timothy saw a Tenderness…
July 2, 2020 264 0 The Long Suffering Icon The wonderworking Bogolyubskaya icon of the Mother of God can be rightly considered one of the oldest Russian icons. It was painted about fifty…
June 18, 2020 339 0 Belarusian Icon Many people who saw Belarusian icons have the impression of their being warm, kind, and homely. Belarusian icon painters approached even tragic stories in…