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Helena Cherkasova’s paintings

Helena Cherkasova’s paintings

12 May 2011

The quiet art of Helen Cherkasova seems simple at first sight - simple even to the naivete. And for much it is true if we imply by naivete pure natural sources and the belief in the clear divine ...

Nativity of the Most Holy Lady, the Birthgiver of God

21 September 2010

Priest Dennis Kristof

The icon for the feast of the Birth, or Nativity of our Most-Holy Lady, the Birthgiver-of-God and Ever-Virgin Mary is replete with symbolism which is most profound, and possibly not readily apparent ...

Time in Icon

20 July 2010

To be able to understand icons it is necessary to know how people of the Middle Ages perceived and understood the concept of time. The difference between the concept of time in Western Europe and ...

What’s the Difference Between an Icon and a Portrait?

What’s the Difference Between an Icon and a Portrait?

13 May 2010

Ekaterina Stepanova

The first question that an icon painter is often asked is how one can draw a saint one has never seen. When I graduated from the Surikov Institute of Art (Moscow), I was also tortured by this ...

The Mother of God of the Sign

01 September 2009

This image reminds me of the comment often made in pro-life circles that "If wombs had windows, there would be no more abortion." The Mother of God of the Sign is an ancient representation ...

What is Blessable As an Icon?

What is Blessable As an Icon?

18 June 2009

Hieromonk Vladimir (Lysak)

One of the great difficulties that I believe the Orthodox Church has always had is control over her iconographers. More than ever, especially today, icons are being painted without understanding, and ...

Icons – God with us in our Homes

19 May 2009

As Christian Education coordinator, I have had the opportunity to visit the parishes around our diocese and I have been welcomed into many homes. At almost every home, the focal point has been their ...

Images of the Good Shepherd : Icons or not?

04 May 2009

In recent years in the Orthodox Church, what has been termed by some as a “new” icon has emerged, and become very popular with many people. It is an icon of Christ the Good Shepherd. All one has to ...

An Icon As an Image: Direct and Reverse Perspective

14 December 2008

As has already been mentioned, an icon is a window facing the holy, sacred world which opens to a person looking at the icon. Space in that world has properties different from those of the space on ...

The Skull on the “Russian” Orthodox Cross

20 November 2008

The skull that viewers can see in iconography of the orthodox crucifixion symbolically represents the skull of Adam. Some believe (although this is not a dogma of the Orthodox Church, but rather a ...

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