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This category relates to religious Eastern Orthodox icons, icon painting, and icon painters. Subcategories. ... Russian icons (1 C, 20 P) S. Serbian icons (2 P) U.
Religious icons and crucifixes are allowed in Romanian schools, by order of the Romania high court, in contrast to the United States. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Romanian icons commonly use a halo to indicate saints, and was used for the ghost in Shakespeare’s Hamlet as well, to indicate the supernatural character of the dead king.
An encolpion (also engolpion, enkolpion; Greek: ἐγκόλπιον, enkólpion, "on the chest"; plural: ἐγκόλπια, enkólpia) is a medallion with an icon in the center worn around the neck by Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic bishops. [1] The icon is normally surrounded by jewels (usually paste) and topped by an Eastern-style mitre ...
Although this is not its traditional title, this icon is sometimes called "Old Testament Trinity" because of its relationship to Genesis 18:1-15. In Genesis 18:1-15 three individuals appear to Abraham at the Oak of Mamre. The interpretation that this appearance is related to the Trinity is a Christian interpretation of the Hebrew scriptures.
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]
Holy Trinity, Hospitality of Abraham; by Andrei Rublev; c. 1411; tempera on panel; 1.1 x 1.4 m (4 ft 8 in x 3 ft 8 3 ⁄ 4 in); Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow). Russian icons represent a form of religious art that developed in Eastern Orthodox Christianity after Kievan Rus' adopted the faith from the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire in AD 988. [1]
The earliest icon known under this title is a late-14th-century fresco in the Church of the Assumption in Volotovo Field, Veliky Novgorod, but its most notable representation is the mid-16th-century icon from the Cathedral of Athanasius and Cyril of the Alexandrian Kirillov Monastery near Novgorod. [3]
Find of an icon safe on a fireplace: Icon establishment in again built up church The prince Vasily Kvashnja prays before an icon for protection of Kostroma city against Tatars: Carrying out of an icon in the field of fight Icon fragment: The victory over the enemy has occurred thanks to wonderful protection of an icon of Theotokos of St. Theodore