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Iconography & Sacred Art

Major Icon Styles

Major Icon Styles, by Richard Mortel from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2017-07-01 20:35
Icon of the Mother of God, Novgorod school, ca 1500, National Gallery, Oslo (2) (36298111902) Richard Mortel from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2017-07-01 20:35 Public domain

Key traditions: Byzantine (gold backgrounds, hieratic style; Constantinople), Russian (Andrei Rublev's luminous style; Moscow and Novgorod), Cretan (Theophanes the Cretan; a synthesis of Byzantine and western influences), Ethiopian (distinctive frontal figures), Romanian, Coptic, and modern revival schools.

Sources

  • Constantine Cavarnos, Guide to Byzantine Iconography
  • Leonid Ouspensky & Vladimir Lossky, The Meaning of Icons

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