What Do you Know about Icons? - An Aesthetic, Historical and Theological Approach to the Icons of the Orthodox Church in the Form of Questions and Answers

In English. Soft cover, 27 cm, 206 pp., ill.: 41 full-page color icons; shipping weight 720 gr.

CONTENTS:

I. Regarding icons: An evangelical language - A liturgical language - A hymnographic language - A saintly and patristic language - A dogmatic language - A pedagogical language - An ecclesiastical language.

II. The semantic and aesthetic of the icon: stylization, moderation, differentiation (distortion or abstraction), exaggeration.

III. The icons of the Naos.

IV. Contemporary hagiographers and icons.

V. Questions regarding the technique and history: 1. The nine stages of icon drawing, 2. The sources of byzantine iconography, 3. Historical periods: First centuries, Iconoclastic Controversy, Period of the Macedonians and Comnenans, Paleologan renaissance, Post-byzantine period.

VI. Theological questions.

Bibliography.

Index.

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