I like Coptic Icons

[Moros]

are these used in "regular" Orthodoxy?

http://www.theotokos.org/CopticIcons/index.htm

I like these three in particular:

 

[Philip]

are these used in "regular" Orthodoxy?

I believe that they are used the Church of Alexandria. Of course, there are quite common among our Oriental brothers.

 

[Michael G]

Coptic icons tend only to be used in Churches under the Alexandria Patriarchate-The Coptic Church of Egypt and the Coptic Church of Ethiopian. I just bought a book, African Zion, which is about the Icons of the Coptic Church of Ethiopia and some of their stuff is quite beautiful. If you want any mounted prints made from this book, let me know. The Coptic icons tend to be very closely related- although slightly different in style- to the "Chalcedonian" Churches, those of Georgia, Armenia, et all. A link to a good coptic iconographer follows:

http://www.comeandseeicons.com/gerges.htm

 

[Moros]

I guess I like these because they tend to be a lot simpler and less 3D than Byzantine Icons.

 

[nicodemus]

I really like a lot of the Ethiopian ones myself. I saw some hanging in an Ethiopian restaurant I ate in not too long ago and really liked them. As long as the subject of the icon was one that was fully in agreement with Byzantine Orthodoxy, I'd have no problem hanging it up. I don't see that as any different than a lot of the more western looking icons present in a lot of churches.

 

[Michael G]

I don't see that as any different than a lot of the more western looking icons present in a lot of churches.

I am much more comfortable with the Coptic/Ethiopian/Georgian/Armenian/Celtic icons all of which are in the same base catergory than I am with the oil painted icons which came out of 18th c Russia. There was one Coptic one of the Trinity, however, that I was not in agreement with.
Michael

 

[Moros]

I really like a lot of the Ethiopian ones myself. I saw some hanging in an Ethiopian restaurant I ate in not too long ago and really liked them.

What do they eat in Ethiopia?

/off topic

 

[Suzannah]

Hey Bruncvik,

I just thought you might be interested to know that our Church has some Coptic icons. Our Priest also has a beautiful Coptic cross made of a beautiful wood, that he takes with him on home visits,etc. I agree with you...many of them are very beautiful!