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Links to Iconography and Art

Iconographers are “image writers”. They paint (write) images of the Savior, the Saints and events in the life of the Church. These images are called icons and are venerated by Christians. From the earliest times Christians used images and held that the honor (which is veneration and not worship) this is given to the image passes on to that which the image represents, and he who venerates or reveres the image reveres that which the image represents. This is the teaching codified at the Seventh Ecumenical Council which was held at Nicea in A.D. 787.

The links here include those to sites about Byzantine Iconography & Art as well as to individual iconographers.

Photo: Iconographer Katie Anne and her mother, Karen Elizabeth, at work on an icon of St. Ann.

Hits: 2411 Web Link A Brush with God Peter Peterson offers the Church his talents both as an iconographer and as a teacher.
Hits: 2471 Web Link Annunciation Press Icons Norwood, MA
Hits: 2323 Web Link Byzantine Studio The Byzantine art of Matthew Kalamidas.
Hits: 2511 Web Link Christian Icons and Sacred Paintings
Hits: 2239 Web Link DominICON A Ministry of the Western Dominican Province to Enhance Appreciation of Holy Icons and the Traditions of the Eastern Churches.
Hits: 2879 Web Link Icons and Iconography Iconographer Vladimir Blagonadezhdin
Hits: 2410 Web Link Icons by Fr. James Obermeyer Phoenix
Hits: 2583 Web Link The Ikon Studio Iconographer Basil Lefchick
Hits: 2610 Web Link Icons by Ioannis Marmagiolis
Hits: 2162 Web Link Orthodox Christian Iconographer Raymond J. Mastroberte
Hits: 2207 Web Link Slava Gallery, LLC
Hits: 2256 Web Link Orthodox Byzantine Icons St. Issaic of Syria Skee
Hits: 2447 Web Link Teofana Orthodox Iconography
Hits: 2157 Web Link Treasures of Mount Athos Site is very slow.
Hits: 2101 Web Link Valentino Icon Studio Toronto
Hits: 2333 Web Link Iconographer Elias Damianaki
Hits: 1986 Web Link Orthodox Ecclesiastical Artifacts Atlanta, Georgia (Church needs from Artoklasias to Zeon sets)
Hits: 1951 Web Link Pageau Carvings Jonathan Pageau carves traditional Christian images in wood and stone in a desire to reconnect with the ancient spiritual traditions of Christianity.

Teachings of Christ

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 22:37-40 ESV)

Holy Forefathers

Through faith, O Christ, you justified the Forefathers, * betrothing through them in advance the Church of the gentiles. * The Saints exult in glory, * for from their seed came forth a glorious fruit: * she who gave birth to You without seed. * Through their prayers, O Christ God, have mercy on us. (Troparion, Tone 2)

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.

You did not honor a hand-depicted image, O thrice-blessed ones, * but defended by the undepicted Being you were glorified in a trial by fire. * And, standing in the midst of unbearable flame, you called upon God: * “Hasten, O Compassionate One, and speed to our help, * for You are merciful and You can do whatever you will.” (Kontakion, Tone 6)

(Second Sunday Before Christmas)

Saint Nicholas of Myra

The truth of your deeds has revealed you to your flock, * as a rule of faith, an image of meekness, and a teacher of abstinence. * Therefore, you attained the heights through humility, * and riches through poverty. * O Father and Hierarch Nicholas, * pray to Christ God that our souls may be saved. (Troparion, Tone 4)

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.

In Myra, You were shown to be a servant of the sacred things, O Holy Nicholas, * for, fulfilling the Gospel of Christ, you, O Venerable, laid down your life for your people, * and saved the innocent from death. * Therefore, you were sanctified as a great initiate of the grace of God. (Kontakion, Tone 3)

Random Proverb

"My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights." (Proverbs 3:11,12 ESV)

Pray Without Ceasing

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

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