truthseeker32
Lost in the Cosmos
Are icons ever painted in such a way that the figure represented looks happy? If so, I would like to see examples. If not, why not?
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why do some look angry then?Icons are not supposed the show emotions, so as not to influence the viewer in the way that sentimental western art does.
Icons are not supposed the show emotions, so as not to influence the viewer in the way that sentimental western art does.
There's one in the Cathedral of St. Andrew in Patras, Greece where the Theotokos has arms spread out over the town of Patra.
How does one become an iconographer?
Are icons ever done as mosaics?
I've seen some; this one is on a RCC in Guelph Ontario:
yep they are, there are a ton around St Tikhon's Monastery.
sorry but that is not an icon. icons don't depict Christ as an animal
This is the front of my old parish church in Thessaloniki, Greece. The Church of the Ascension of our Lord.
The mosaics were produced by a group of nuns. I don't remember which monastery they were from.
This is why we don't depict Christ as a lamb. Canon 82 of the Quinisext Council in Troullo:
"In some of the paintings of the venerable icons, a lamb is inscribed as being shown or pointed at by the Precursors finger, which was taken to be a type of grace, suggesting beforehand through the law the true lamb to us, Christ our God. Therefore, eagerly embracing the old types and the shadows as symbols of the truth and preindications handed down to the Church, we prefer the grace, and accept it as the truth in fulfillment of the Law. Since, therefore, that which is perfect even though it be but painted is imprinted in the faces of all, the Lamb who taketh away the sin of the world Christ our God, with respect to His human character, we decree that henceforth He shall be inscribed even in the icons instead of the ancient lamb: through Him being enabled to comprehend the reason for the humiliation of the God Logos, and in memory of His life in the flesh and of His passion and of His soterial death being led by the hand, as it were, and of the redemption of the world which thence accrues."