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Guide to Byzantine Iconography, Volume One
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You will earn 1 Point for purchasing this product.By Constantine Cavarnos
Guide to Byzantine Iconography, Volume One: Detailed explanation of the distinctive characteristics of Byzantine iconography, of the traditional pattern of decorating Eastern Orthodox churches with panel icons, wall paintings, and mosaics, and of the chief Doctrinal, Liturgical, and Festal icons; together with a concise systematic exposition of Saint John Damascene’s defense of holy icons
Publication Data: Belmont, MA: Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2010
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 266
Dimensions (l × w × h): 22.5 cm × 15.1 cm × 1.6 cm
Additional Information: two-color printing, full-color and black-and-white illustrations
ISBN: 0‒943405‒05‒X
Second Edition
By Constantine Cavarnos
Volume One of Guide to Byzantine Iconography
“The present volume is a book about icons[...which deals...]with many tenets and teachings of iconography rarely found, if to be found at all, in the English language, such as Archetypes, Frontality, Hieraticalness, Inverted and Psychological Perspective, Abolition of Time, etc. One can rightly say that the present volume is a handbook of Orthodox iconography for both the iconographer and the layman, for both the faithful and the student and friend of iconography. In less than three hundred pages one comes across information that it would take searching many volumes to find.”
—“FOREWORD”
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
PREFACE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Introduction
Byzantine Iconography as a Sacred Art
Its History
Themes of Byzantine Iconography
Frontality
The Face
Archetypes
The Halo
The Garments
The Members of the Body
Objects
The Background
Inverted and Psychological Perspective
Abolition of Time
Aesthetic Features
Hieraticalness
Iconography and Architecture
Classification of Icons
Part One
Panel Icons on Proskynetaria and on the Iconostasis
CHAPTER I. PROSKYNETARIA
CHAPTER II. THE ICONOSTASIS
Part Two
Murals: Wall Painting and Mosaics
CHAPTER I. THE DOCTRINAL CYCLE
Christ as the Door
Christ as Pantocrator
Choir of Angels
Prophets
The Four Evangelists
The Theotokos as Platytera
The Second Coming of Christ
CHAPTER II. THE LITURGICAL CYCLE
The Divine Liturgy
Communion of the Apostles
Great Hierarchs
Other Figures
CHAPTER III. THE FESTAL CYCLE
The Annunciation
The Nativity
The Presentation of Christ in the Temple
The Baptism
The Transfiguration
The Raising of Lazarus
The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem
The Crucifixion
The Resurrection
The Touching of Thomas
The Myrrh-bearing Women
Apostles Peter and John at the Tomb
The Ascension
Pentecost
The Dormition of the Theotokos
CHAPTER IV. THE LADDER OF DIVINE ASCENT
Appendix
SAINT JOHN DAMASCENE’S DEFENSE OF ICONOGRAPHY AND THE VENERATION OF HOLY ICONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF ICONOGRAPHIC THEMES
GENERAL INDEX
Publication Data: Belmont, MA: Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2010
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 266
Dimensions (l × w × h): 22.5 cm × 15.1 cm × 1.6 cm
Additional Information: two-color printing, full-color and black-and-white illustrations
ISBN: 0‒943405‒05‒X
Second Edition
By Constantine Cavarnos
Volume One of Guide to Byzantine Iconography
“The present volume is a book about icons[...which deals...]with many tenets and teachings of iconography rarely found, if to be found at all, in the English language, such as Archetypes, Frontality, Hieraticalness, Inverted and Psychological Perspective, Abolition of Time, etc. One can rightly say that the present volume is a handbook of Orthodox iconography for both the iconographer and the layman, for both the faithful and the student and friend of iconography. In less than three hundred pages one comes across information that it would take searching many volumes to find.”
—“FOREWORD”
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
PREFACE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Introduction
Byzantine Iconography as a Sacred Art
Its History
Themes of Byzantine Iconography
Frontality
The Face
Archetypes
The Halo
The Garments
The Members of the Body
Objects
The Background
Inverted and Psychological Perspective
Abolition of Time
Aesthetic Features
Hieraticalness
Iconography and Architecture
Classification of Icons
Part One
Panel Icons on Proskynetaria and on the Iconostasis
CHAPTER I. PROSKYNETARIA
CHAPTER II. THE ICONOSTASIS
Part Two
Murals: Wall Painting and Mosaics
CHAPTER I. THE DOCTRINAL CYCLE
Christ as the Door
Christ as Pantocrator
Choir of Angels
Prophets
The Four Evangelists
The Theotokos as Platytera
The Second Coming of Christ
CHAPTER II. THE LITURGICAL CYCLE
The Divine Liturgy
Communion of the Apostles
Great Hierarchs
Other Figures
CHAPTER III. THE FESTAL CYCLE
The Annunciation
The Nativity
The Presentation of Christ in the Temple
The Baptism
The Transfiguration
The Raising of Lazarus
The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem
The Crucifixion
The Resurrection
The Touching of Thomas
The Myrrh-bearing Women
Apostles Peter and John at the Tomb
The Ascension
Pentecost
The Dormition of the Theotokos
CHAPTER IV. THE LADDER OF DIVINE ASCENT
Appendix
SAINT JOHN DAMASCENE’S DEFENSE OF ICONOGRAPHY AND THE VENERATION OF HOLY ICONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF ICONOGRAPHIC THEMES
GENERAL INDEX
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