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This category relates to religious Eastern Orthodox icons, icon painting, and icon painters. Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 ...
In the Church of Hagia Sophia, the people recited the Synodikon of Orthodoxy, a short profession of the validity of icon veneration which was authored by Patriarch Methodios. [8] This profession of faith is still recited today in the Eastern Orthodox Church on the first Sunday of Great Lent, called the Sunday of Orthodoxy. [15]
Presumably, the artist also participated in the painting of murals in St. Michael's Cathedral in Kiev. One of the icons painted by St Alypius survived and is now preserved in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. This is the Sven Icon [2] of the Theotokos (or The Sven Caves Icon of the Mother of God) (feast days: 3 May and 17 August).
The Holy Trinity is an important subject of icons in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and has a rather different treatment from depictions in the Western Churches. There are two different types of Holy Trinity icons: the Old Testament Trinity and the New Testament Trinity (Троица Ветхозаветная and Троица ...
Between 1949 and 2004, the icon remained at Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral in Chicago, Illinois. In August 1978, the Theotokos of Tikhvin was brought by Archbishop John, who had become the Orthodox Church in America's Archbishop of Chicago and Minneapolis for veneration to St Mary's Russian Orthodox Church in Holdingford, Minnesota. [2]
The icon references the overcoming of the Byzantine Empire’s Eastern Orthodox faith from the dominance of the Islamic faith and the Byzantine Iconoclasm in 842. [2] Shown in the icon's composition are important figures such as the Virgin Hodegetria , her child Jesus , and eleven saints and martyrs associated with the Triumph of Orthodoxy. [ 3 ]
Ecclesia militans, one of the largest icons in existence. Blessed Be the Host of the Heavenly Tsar (Russian: Благословенно воинство Небесного Царя), also known as the Ecclesia militans ("The Church Militant"), is a grand Russian Orthodox icon commemorating the conquest of Kazan by Ivan IV of Russia (1552).
This icon and other works by Klontzas are currently preserved in the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies in Venice, Italy. Klontzas was a Byzantine Greek artist and émigré from the island of Crete in the period following the end of the Byzantine Empire, and member of the Cretan School. His artistic output was during the ...