March 11, 2020 Why an Icon Is Not a Portrait of a Saint The icon always depicts a person: there is not a single icon that is not anthropological in its content. Even Angels are portrayed as…
March 5, 2020 The Reverse Perspective in Iconography One of the difficulties in understanding the iconographic image, particularly ancient Russian icons, is the special way of depicting space and objects on it….
February 26, 2020 Sister Joanna (Reitlinger) One of the last icons painted by Sister Joanna (Julia Reitlinger) was The Walking on Waters, and her whole life was, in fact, such…
February 24, 2020 Unusual Icons of Saints That Few Know About The painting of a new icon – be it a copy of a known sample or a new image – is akin to its…
February 19, 2020 Gurias Nikitin Gurias Nikitin had a rare feeling of plasticity for a medieval painter. He knew how to make figures dynamic, lively and, ultimately, temperamental. The…
February 17, 2020 The Divnogorskaya Sicilian Icon of the Mother of God Stops Deadly Epidemic The Divnogorskaya Sicilian Icon of the Mother of God was named after the place of its original location and its glorification in the Holy…
February 12, 2020 Simon Ushakov No other icon painter got such contradictory opinions about his work as Simon Ushakov. Did he ruin the iconographic tradition, or was he its…
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 10, 2020 The Icon of the Mother of God Assuage My Sorrows This image got its name after the lines from the following sticheron dedicated to the Mother of God, “Assuage the sickness of my greatly…
February 6, 2020 Daniil Cherny Icon painter Daniil Cherny is known primarily for the fact that he worked with Andrei Rublev, which actually puts his personality in the shadow…