Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church

An icon (from the Greek word eikon, "image") is a wooden panel painting of a holy person or scene from Orthodox Christianity, the religion of the Byzantine Empire that is practiced today mainly in Greece and Russia. It was believed that these works acted as intermediaries between worshipers and the holy personages they depicted. Their pictorial language is stylized and primarily symbolic, rather than literal and narrative. Indeed, every attitude, pose, and colour depicted in an icon has a precise meaning, and their painters - usually monks - followed prescribed models from iconographic manuals. The goal of this book is to catalogue the vast heritage of images according to iconographic type and subject, from the most ancient at the Monastery of Saint Catherine in the Sinai to those from Greece, Constantinople, and Russia. Chapters focus on the role of icons in the Orthodox liturgy and on common iconic subjects, including the fathers and saints of the Eastern Church and the life of Jesus and his followers. As with other volumes in the "Guide to Imagery Series", this book includes a wealth of color illustrations in which details are called out for discussion. This is a new title in the popular Guide "To Imagery series", and includes 400 colour illustrations; and over 380 pages.

ISBN 0892368454   Pages 384 ISBN13 9780892368457 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Getty Trust Publications   Weight (grammes) 694 Imprint Getty Publishing   Published in Santa Monica CA Format Paperback   Series title Guide to Imagery Publication date 01 Jun 2006   Height (mm) 197 Translator Sartarelli, Stephen   Width (mm) 133 Library of Congress 2005033206   Spine width (mm) 24 DEWEY 704.9482   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

		The iconostasis and the orthodox calendar		9
		The Old Testament		43
		Gospel episodes and church feasts		93
		The mother of God		163
		Christ the savior		225
		Apostles and martyrs		257
		Fathers of the Eastern Church		301
		Monastic saints of the east		321
		Russian saints		343

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