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Icons & Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church

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 | #408814 in Books |  Tradigo, Alfredo |  2006-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.75 x1.00 x5.25l,1.53 | File type: PDF | 383 pages

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||24 of 26 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent example from GUIDE TO IMAGERY series|By W.T.Hoffman|When it comes to the Eastern Church's wealth of Icons, so many are near impossible for westerners to discover. Many were either hidden (and often lost) during the Communist rule of eastern europe, or many were destroyed by the powers that be during that era. Other Icons in the book come from Lebanon, Egypt (St. C|About the Author||Alfredo Tradigo is the artistic director and art critic for Famiglia Cristiana magazine and has devoted thirty years to research on Christian iconography.|

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 color depict...

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