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Sacred Doorways: A Beginner’s Guide to Icons
| Linette Martin
“[This...]is first and foremost a practical book, by a student for students, not a technical work for scholars, professional art historians, and theologians. We hope that it will appeal to people new to the subject, those who have been intrigued by seeing icons in collections or churches, who have perhaps encountered Byzantine frescoes and mosaics on their travels and would like to know more. Basically, this is a book about how works of art were made, about materials[...], and a guide to the most important subjects found in Orthodox iconography, and what they mean. This last necessarily involves understanding something about the beliefs of Orthodox Christians, which the icons celebrate and express, and we hope there is sufficient theological dimension provided.” —“Preface”
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations Preface Bouquets Publisher’s Acknowledgment Introduction Living Doors • Time to Look ONE What Are Icons? Any Materials, Any Size, and Not Only Religious TWO Their History When Were Icons First Made? • Periods of Byzantine Art • Russia and Icons • Changing Styles and Subjects THREE The Icon Makers Alchemy • The Artist and His Assistants • Craftsmen Known by Name • Donors • Guilds FOUR Materials and Techniques Introduction: The Limitations of Raw Materials • Colors and Pigments • Drawing the Design • Egg Tempera • “Frames”/Panels • Gesso • Gilding • Icon Covers • Jewels and Gems • Manuals and Patternbooks • Measurements • Mechanical Reproduction • Metalwork • Mordants • Painting the Icon • Panel Preparation • Repainting and Copying • Restoration • Stencils and Templates • Tones and Highlights • Various Media for Icons • Varnishing FIVE Portable Icons and Painted Panel Icons Icons Made to be Worn • Folding Icons • Miniature Icons • Processional Icons • Relic Boxes SIX Several Pictures Together Calendar Icons • Family Icons • Hagiographical Icons • Iconostasis • Icons in Icons • Six-Day Icons SEVEN Visual Language Introduction: Iconography • Hiring a Craftsman to Follow Iconography • Animals • Arc of Heaven • Arms, Very Thin • Arrested Movement • Body Language • Buildings in Icons • Classical Details • Clothes • Colors • Craggy Rocks • Drapery • Enlarging and Reducing • Evangelists’ Symbols • Furniture • Haloes • Handheld Objects • Hands, Divine and Human • Inscriptions • Landscape • Mandorla • Nails in the Cross • Narrative Details • Numbers • Optical Correction • Outer Darkness • Particularity • Personification • Perspective • Picture Space • Praying Figures • Profile • Proportions • “Provincial” Style • Regional Schools • Scale, Hierarchy of • Side of Blessing/Side of Judgment • Simultaneous Narration • Skull • Stars on the Virgin’s Veil EIGHT God, Angels, and People Rublev’s Trinity Icon • God the Father • God the Son • God the Holy Spirit • Christ Pantocrator • The Holy Face • Orders of Angels • Virgin Mary • How to Recognize Saints • Hermits, Abbots, Monks, and Nuns • Holy Fools • Bishops • Priests and Deacons • Children • Satan and His Angels NINE New Testament Scenes in Icons: The Festal Cycle Introduction: Twelve Feasts • Annunciation • Nativity • Presentation in the Temple • Baptism of Christ • Transformation • Raising of Lazarus • Entry into Jerusalem • Communion of the Apostles • Crucifixion • Spice-Bearing Women • Anastasis • Ascension • Pentecost • Life and Death of the Virgin • Last Judgment TEN The Special Qualities of Icons Direct Communication • Observing Faces in Icons • The Quality of Light in Icons • Time and Place • Respecting Icons • The True Context of an Icon • Getting to Know an Icon ELEVEN Icons and Prayer Looking at Icons in Silence and Stillness • What Is Prayer? • The Terrain of Icons, the Terrain of Prayer • Prayer Is Not Safe Because God Is Not Safe • Fearful Love • Looking at God in Icons • Time and Place • Praying Without Words • The Sense of Sight • Praying with Icons • A Reflection TWELVE Windows of Eternity: The Theology of Icons Nicholas Gendle Appendix: Where Do You Go from Here? Icon Collections Worldwide Notes Bibliography
Item Number: BKPCP715 Publication Data: Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2002 Format: softcover Number of Pages: xviii + 259 Dimensions (l × w × h): 20.4 cm × 13.3 cm × 1.8 cm Additional Information: full-color illustrations ISBN: 1‒55725‒307‒2
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