What do you know ABOUT ICONS?

Description

An Esthetic, Historical and Theological Approach to the icons of the Orthodox Church in the form of Questions and Answers.

Editor: ΑΔ.Ι.Μ.ΤΙΜΙΟΥ ΠΡΟΔΡΟΜΟΥ ΚΑΡΕΑ

ISBN: 9608447070

Size: 17×27

Pages: 206

Cover : Hard Cover


Contents :

Translator’s Note viii

Prologue xi


I. regarding icons 1

1. An Evangelical Language 6

2. A Liturgical Language 8

3. A Hymnographic Language 8

4. A Saintly and Patristic Language 8

5. A Dogmatic Language 9

6. A Pedagogical Language 9

7. An Ecclesiastical Language 10


II. the semantic and esthetic of the icon 13

1. Stylization 16

2. Moderation 18

3. Differentiation (Distortion or Abstraction) 19

4. Exaggeration 20


III. the icons of the naos 67

1. The Dogmatic Cycle 70

2. The Liturgical Cycle 77

3. The Festal-Historical Cycle 80


IV. contemporary hagiographers and icons 97


V. questions regarding the technique and history of iconography 107

1. The Nine Stages of Icon Drawing 113

2. The Sources of Byzantine Iconography 116

3. The Historical Periods of Byzantine Iconography 120

Iconography of the First Centuries to the Iconoclastic Controversy 121

Iconography During the Years of the Iconoclastic Controversy 130

The Iconography of the Macedonians and Comnenans: the Middle Byzantine Period 130

The Iconography of the Paleologan Renaissance: the Post-Byzantine Period 132


VI. theological questions 149


Epilogue 181

Endnotes 183

Prayers 191

Glossary 194

Select Bibliography 197

Index 198