Actually, ditto for this one. The previous offering covers just about every key figure in the history of Orthodox iconography, and discusses the theological steps taken to get from the ban on images of the Pentateuch to the triumph of icons at the close of the iconoclastic controversy (to put it mildly). A fascinating read. This second book is a compilation of essays discussing common errors that leak into modern and not-so-modern iconography.
The Image of God the Father in Orthodox Theology and Iconography and Other Studies, by Fr. Steven Bigham (1995 Oakwood Publications).
Unsure whether or not the portion in little letters is part of the official, searchable title.
Erratum: Heroes of the Icon was published in 1998.
Vasya,
I have yet to read Fr. Stephan's works but I actually spoke to him one time on the phone. A friend of mine who is a noted iconographer gave me his phone number to call him to ask him a question about the Resurrection/Hallowing of Hades Icon. I shall have to add these titles to my immense iconography library and give them a solid reading! Thank you for the heads up on these works.
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This book is not by an Orthodox priest, but rather a Jesuit priest. I still highly recommend it. He Leadeth Me by Fr. Walter Ciszek, SJ. Published by Ignatius Press. It is the story of a priest who learns the true meaning of the spiritual life while in a Soviet prison camp for something like 15 years.
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Vasya,
I have yet to read Fr. Stephan's works but I actually spoke to him one time on the phone. A friend of mine who is a noted iconographer gave me his phone number to call him to ask him a question about the Resurrection/Hallowing of Hades Icon. I shall have to add these titles to my immense iconography library and give them a solid reading! Thank you for the heads up on these works.
That's awesome! Orthodoxy is such a small world. Fr. Stephan is a friend of mine, and I am a big fan of his work. Well, some of it anyway. We had a rip-roaring debate a couple years back on one paper he was editing. But I find him most approachable.
I would like to extend my personal iconography library. What would be the first five to ten titles that jump to mind as requisites to the scholar/iconographer who is genuinely interested in all aspects of iconography?
Russian Icons Today by Sergei Timchenko The Icon: Window on the Kingdom by Michel Quenot On The Divine Images by St. John Damascus The Icon by Konrad Onasch The Meaning of Icons by Leonid Ouspensky On The Holy Icons by St. Theodore Studite
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Totally off topic, but which style of brush strokes do you use? I don't know the names in English, because I studied under a French iconographer. And in what century and cultural tradition of iconographer are all/most your works?
Totally off topic, but which style of brush strokes do you use? I don't know the names in English, because I studied under a French iconographer. And in what century and cultural tradition of iconographer are all/most your works?
Vasya the Ever-Inquisitive.
My brushstrokes are mostly made in x shapes, atleast for the larger areas. I tend to emulate 14th C Novgorod work and 15th C Moscow work. To me, those are the epitome of iconography.
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I do not recommend this book or any other book by Frank Schaeffer.
People claiming to have found the One True Church should not write pornographic novels about their family, especially when their parents are Francis and Edith Schaeffer.
I will not even buy anything from Schaeffer's Regina Press.
People will say his novels are not pornographic. I disagree.
People will say they are not about his family. I strongly disagree.
-Xenia
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The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof. O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, our brothers the animals to whom Thou gavest the earth as their home in common with us. We remember with shame that in the past we have exercised the high dominion of man with ruthless cruelty so that the voice of the earth, which should have gone up to Thee in song has been a groan of travail. St. Basil the Great
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