icons-msg - 6/7/99 Religous Icons. Painting them. Referances. NOTE: See also the files: Icons-art, relics-msg, rosaries-msg, religion-msg, saints-msg, p-bibles-msg, burials-msg, painting-msg, frescoes-msg. ************************************************************************ NOTICE - This file is a collection of various messages having a common theme that I have collected from my reading of the various computer networks. Some messages date back to 1989, some may be as recent as yesterday. This file is part of a collection of files called Stefan's Florilegium. These files are available on the Internet at: http://www.florilegium.org I have done a limited amount of editing. Messages having to do with separate topics were sometimes split into different files and sometimes extraneous information was removed. For instance, the message IDs were removed to save space and remove clutter. The comments made in these messages are not necessarily my viewpoints. I make no claims as to the accuracy of the information given by the individual authors. Please respect the time and efforts of those who have written these messages. The copyright status of these messages is unclear at this time. If information is published from these messages, please give credit to the originator(s). Thank you, Mark S. Harris AKA: THLord Stefan li Rous Stefan at florilegium.org ************************************************************************ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:49:10 -0600 From: Roberta R Comstock To: sca-arts at raven.cc.ukans.edu Subject: Re: painting writes: >..... I know of a few people experimenting with dyptych(I hope I spelled that right). >That's a Russian religious icon used for devotional activities..I've seen one(HL Linnet's--*drool*). > >Lady Sciath Although a Russian icon may be a diptych, there are other formats for icons as well. Not all diptychs are Russian or icons. A diptych is a pair of hinged panels. The may contain a writing surface such as beeswax on which one may take notes with a pointed stylus. Or they may have a carved or recessed painted surface, often including one or more icons. A triptych is similar, except that it has 3 panels. Usually the two side panels meet in the center of the large panel when closed. These were sometimes placed on altars or in shrines. Small ones are easily portable. These are commonly made of wood. The surface to be painted is usually coated with gesso befor color is applied. I have also seen small metal diptichs and triptichs which may be worn as lockets. Larger ones are sometimes associated with reliquaries. Hertha Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:09:53 +0000 From: Scot Eddy To: sca-arts at raven.cc.ukans.edu Subject: Re: Icon book question > I just noticed that Daedalus Books has in their Winter 1999 book, a > book on Iconography. Icons by Gordana Babic, I.P. Verlgsgesellschaft. > Import. $14.98 ...explains icons (eikon) etc...In this book, 64 great > icons (one to a page and in glowing color) are introduced and > interpreted by leading sacred art scholar Gordana Babic. The examples > come from Greece, Serbia, Macedonia, Russia, Bulgaria and Hungary, > where they can still be seen in their gilded radiance in churches > and museums. > > Have you heard of this volume? Is a good one for the icons of the > SCA period? Is is a good, overview one for someone new to icons > and only wanting an overview? > > Stefan Stefan, No, I haven't had a chance to check it out, but thanks for the heads up. Here are 7 of the best books from my library that are worth reading if one is interested in iconography. Actually, icongraphy would be quite normal and accessible to most Europeans, even Normans. The Crusades brought iconography West where is took root in the Catholic Church. If you're looking just for pictures of Icons then a cheap way to go is to buy icon calendars from the previous year rather than a more expensive book. Light and Life Publishing is a good source both for Byzanitne history and iconography books. Here is their address if you're interested. Light & Life Publishing 4818 Park Glen Road Minneapolis, MN 55416 Voice:(612) 925-3888 FAX: (612) 925-3918 Toll Free Fax: (US Only) (888) 925-3918 http://www.light-n-life.com/index.html Chatzidakis, Manolis, et al. The Icon. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1982. Weitzmann, Kurt, Manolis Chatzidakis, and Svetozar Radojcic., ICONS. Alpine Fine Arts Collection (UK), LTD., 1993. ISBN 0-933516-07-X Brenske, Helmut. Icons. Berghaus Printing 1996 (no ISBN listed) Rice, David Talbot. Art of the Byzantine Era. Thames and Hudson. 1963 ISBN 0-500-20004-1 Pelikan, Jaroslav. Imago Dei. Princeton University Press. 1990 ISBN 0-691-09970-7 (alk. paper) Maguire, Henry. The Icons of Their Bodies. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-02581-9 (cl:alk paper) Lowden, John. Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Phaidon Press Limited. 1997 ISBN 0-7148-3168-9 Subject: icon writing Date: Tue, 01 Dec 98 08:18:26 MST From: Scot Eddy To: "Mark.S Harris (rsve60)" It's called "writing" because you are producing a physical manifestation of a intangible prayer. It's part prayer, part story. The Romans (as the Byzanines called themselves) saw the icon as a tool for worship; like incense, organ music, candles, and prayers. Hope this sheds some light. Jovian Edited by Mark S. Harris icons-msg 3