Are these icons Orthodox?

[Happy Orthodox]

I have found that asking a good question can stimulate the librarian's interest in the Orthodox Church. In this way we can act as missionaries.

Great idea!

 

[Michael G]

I visited a Catholic Church / Center of Conferences and in their Shop there was plenty of EO icons....

So I would say that since icons are not a Sacrament, we can use Catholic icons provided that the saint there is recognised by the EO Church plus all other necessary elements to make the work an ICON.

Other opinions ?

There are many who put the writing of an icon on a level of being nearly a sacrament.

 

[Michael G]

I am sorry Peter, I agree with Aria. I am not here to give you or anyone else an education in iconography. If you would like to read the canons, I have pointed you to where you can find some of them. You don't have the time to read the sources, and I don't have the time to give anyone a free education in something that I have studied for over a decade.

 

[Michael G]

Well, now I'm confused. The See of Rome is not in communion with the EP. And, unless I have been misinformed, niether is the Pope of the Coptic Church. So why is it okay to have Coptic icons and not Roman ones? Neither is Eastern Orthodox.

The Reader Peter

Nowhere has anyone said one needed to be EASTERN Orthodox to write icons. Iconography has existed in the Coptic Orthodox Church and the other Orthodox Churches for as long as it has existed in the Eastern Orthodox Church. These Churches have a legitimate claim to iconography being a part of their tradition. As a matter of fact, the Byzantine style of iconography draws from among other things, Egyptian sources. The Copts, Armenians, the Church of the East, etc. all have a legitimate tradition of iconography in their churches which date to the beginning. One of the oldest extant icons comes from Egypt, namely the Sinai Pantocrator. Are you going to deny this icon is Orthodox, even though it came from the Coptic Church? Rome does not have any such legitiate claim because Rome denounced it well over a thousand years ago. I do not have the quotes in front of me, nor the time to research them, but the Western Fathers were quick to disassociate themselves with iconography not long after the 7th Ecumenical Council. Yes there was a pre-Romanesque Bzyantine Iconography in southern Italy, but this is more due to the close proximity with Greece and Byzantium. The fact is, the west openly rejected iconography in both theology and in actual artistic practice with the onset of the Romanesque style of art. I see major errors in one claiming that the Catholic Church was once part of the Orthodox Church and thus can have a legitimate claim to iconography.

 

[ttreg]

I am not Orthodox so I wouldnt know but:what is the difference between orthodox icons and non orthodox icons?