purchasing icons, the good, the bad and the ugly

Ioustinos · Dec 23, 2013

I found them through a reference on the Antiochian Orthodox website and ordered a pair for Christmas. The icons I received are very high quality!

The Damascene Gallery

Christiancounseling · Aug 7, 2014

I have used Monastery Icons. They have a lot of Western saints also made into icons which I love

Keep in mind, I am eastern catholic, so I have a connection with the west that is more than spiritual, hence a devotion to some of the western saints.

But I do love the list above--and would like to find more eastern--especially st Athanasius.

Anhelyna · Aug 7, 2014

Christian Counselling

Have you read the whole of this thread ? If not I would advise you most strongly to read it before you make any further purchases

Christiancounseling · Aug 7, 2014

I just looked back. Couldn't disagree more

First, they cannot sell blessed objects, that is simony.

Second, I had them all placed on the altar at Liturgy and Father had no issue where they came from.

Third, if anything they are a large corp that sells mass--yes your not getting the original painting with the spirituality but those cost a lot.

Fourth, there is no reason, the traditions of the east can be shared with the west---I see how many times we are enraged of latinizations, here is a way to share our traditions with many holy saints---such as st Thomas Aquinas, st Ignatius of Loyola or St Teresa of Avila or St Patrick etc.

They are saints of the universal and apostolic church

Steve77 · Aug 28, 2014

I definitely am looking into buying from monastery. It looks like they have a great selection.

AXO · Nov 16, 2014

Hello, Eastern brothers. I'm getting a little scared about the Monastery Icons issue, I really like Eastern icons, and I cannot catch the danger. Could someone of you explain it to me? Thanks.

lernestof · Feb 27, 2015

Dear friends, its my first time here on C.F.

I see that many of the websites doesn't ship icons outside US and Canada. Which of these websites sends to South America ?

Dewi Sant · Feb 28, 2015

Christiancounseling said:
Fourth, there is no reason, the traditions of the east can be shared with the west---I see how many times we are enraged of latinizations, here is a way to share our traditions with many holy saints---such as st Thomas Aquinas, st Ignatius of Loyola or St Teresa of Avila or St Patrick etc.

They are saints of the universal and apostolic church

Yes on St. Patrick / Sant Padrig .
Good 5th Cent. Welsh boy.

ArmyMatt · Feb 28, 2015

Dear friends, its my first time here on C.F.

welcome to TAW!

nutroll · May 18, 2015

I want to warn everybody away from ordering from St Joseph School For Boys. We recently discovered that they have been using many of my images without permission (using the Wayback Machine I discovered at least one of my images being used since 2011 without permission). They have also been using one of Julia's icons(known to TAWers as ikonographics) without permission and several other iconographers I know. They claim to have a database of thousands of icons from which to make prints, and I suspect that the bulk of them are images they have no rights to. I have made it my policy not to watermark my icons because I want people to be able to see them clearly on the internet, and to even be able to print them out for personal use if they need them but can't afford icons. But there is a difference between personal use and theft for profit. We are in the process of dealing with this situation in conjunction with some of my brother and sister iconographers, but I want people to be aware. This should serve as a wake up call for anyone ordering icons online, if you suspect that a business doesn't have the rights to sell an icon, please find out before ordering.

Anhelyna · May 18, 2015

Thanks for that warning !!

As you say - this unauthorised use for sale and their personal profit is indeed theft. I have one of Ikonographic's Icons - the Guardian Angel and I treasure it. I do know where 3 others of hers are - and they are greatly appreciated

ArmyMatt · May 19, 2015

thanks for the head's up, nutroll!

ikonographics · May 24, 2015

A week later and they still haven't removed our icons from their site...

Anhelyna · May 24, 2015

That is not right - and they admit that there are problems about ownership of some

ikonographics · Jun 4, 2015

lernestof said:
Dear friends, its my first time here on C.F.

I see that many of the websites doesn't ship icons outside US and Canada. Which of these websites sends to South America ?

Hi! If you're wanting hand painted icons I'll send them anywhere. PM me if you want more info.

Anhelyna · Jun 4, 2015

And she does And they arrive beautifully packed .

Catherineanne · Jul 5, 2015

Michael G said:
Monastery Icons are spiritually dangerous and are an affront to Christ. They are a mockery of Orthodox iconography and are not written in a manner consistent with the teaching of the church. The precedence to burn heretical and sacrilegous things goes much further back than St. Nicholas of Japan. Why don't you examine how the early church handled matters.

If someone I respected said that of my pictures I would take them into the garden and burn them myself.

Ulyss · Nov 16, 2015

Hello everybody,

We sell high-quality hand-painted and handmade Byzantine Orthodox icons which are exact copies of famous antique originals.

This icons were made by an artists with pray in monasteries of Cyprus and Greece using traditional iconography technique (handmade on canvas and set on gold background) and placed for 40 days in monastery's church iconostasis for gaining the grace of God.

You can find us here: http://www.ebay.com/sch/serec.vladi/m.html?item=252148780212&hash=item3ab53d0cb4:g:qY8AAOSw9mFWM2Hx&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562
We renew our list every 7 days.

Please look at some of them.

ArmyMatt · Nov 16, 2015

thanks Ulyss, they look awesome!

ikonographics · Dec 1, 2015

For anyone interested, prints of my icons are available here: http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/julia-hayes.html
and here: http://www.redbubble.com/people/ikonographics

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