Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church

Name: Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church
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ISBN: 9780892368457

ISBN-10: 0892368454

ISBN-13: 9780892368457

Edition: 2006

Authors: Alfredo Tradigo, Stephen Sartarelli

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An icon (from the Greek word "eikon," "image") is a wooden panel painting of a holy person or scene from Orthodox Christianity, the religion of the Byzantine Empire that is practiced today mainly in Greece and Russia. It was believed that these works acted as intermediaries between worshipers and the holy personages they depicted. Their pictorial language is stylized and primarily symbolic, rather than literal and narrative. Indeed, every attitude, pose, and color depicted in an icon has a precise meaning, and their painters--usually monks--followed prescribed models from iconographic manuals. The goal of this book is to catalogue the vast heritage of images according to iconographic type…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

Stephen Sartarelli lives in New York City.



The iconostasis and the orthodox calendar


The Old Testament


Gospel episodes and church feasts


The mother of God


Christ the savior


Apostles and martyrs


Fathers of the Eastern Church


Monastic saints of the east


Russian saints