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Cathedral of the Transfiguration
Cathedral of the Transfiguration
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Cathedral of the Transfiguration Videos
Verkhoturye - the spiritual center of the Urals (Russia)
Verkhoturye - the spiritual center of the Urals. The city was founded in the XVI century. In Verkhoturye are two of the monastery, St. Nicholas Monastery and women's Intercession Monastery. On the territory of the Transfiguration Church, kept the main shrine Verkhoturye - the relics of St. Simeon VerkhoturskyThe film was made as part the project Big Ural and Ekaterinburg
Director and cameraman: Vasily V. Goloshchapov
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- Socrates
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An icon (from Greek εἰκών eikōn image) is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, in the cultures of the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Roman Catholic, and certain Eastern Catholic churches. The most common subjects include Christ, Mary, saints and angels. Though especially associated with portrait style images concentrating on one or two main figures, the term also covers most religious images in a variety of artistic media produced by Eastern Christianity, including narrative scenes.
Icons may also be cast in metal, carved in stone, embroidered on cloth, painted on wood, done in mosaic or fresco work, printed on paper or metal, etc. Comparable images from Western Christianity are generally not classified as icons, although iconic may be used to describe a static style of devotional image.
Eastern Orthodox tradition holds that the production of Christian images dates back to the very early days of Christianity, and that it has been a continuous tradition since then. Modern academic art history considers that, while images may have existed earlier, the tradition can be traced back only as far as the 3rd century, and that the images which survive from Early Christian art often differ greatly from later ones. The icons of later centuries can be linked, often closely, to images from the 5th century onwards, though very few of these survive. Widespread destruction of images occurred during the Byzantine Iconoclasm of 726-842, although this did settle permanently the question of the appropriateness of images. Since then icons have had a great continuity of style and subject; far greater than in the images of the Western church. At the same time there has been change and development.
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00:01:49 1 History
00:01:57 1.1 Emergence of the icon
00:09:00 1.2 Theodosius to Justinian
00:11:23 1.3 Luke's portrait of Mary
00:14:07 1.4 Iconoclast period
00:16:30 2 Acheiropoieta
00:17:32 3 Stylistic developments
00:20:48 4 Symbolism
00:22:01 5 Miracles
00:23:10 6 Eastern Orthodox teaching
00:28:09 7 Icon painting tradition by region
00:28:19 7.1 Eastern Roman Empire
00:30:36 7.2 Crete
00:31:41 7.3 Russia
00:33:45 7.4 Romania
00:34:20 7.5 Egypt and Ethiopia
00:34:53 8 Western Christianity
00:36:43 8.1 Catholic Church view
00:37:38 8.2 Lutheran view
00:39:54 9 See also
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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An icon (from Greek εἰκών eikōn image) is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, in the cultures of the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Roman Catholic, and certain Eastern Catholic churches. The most common subjects include Christ, Mary, saints and angels. Though especially associated with portrait style images concentrating on one or two main figures, the term also covers most religious images in a variety of artistic media produced by Eastern Christianity, including narrative scenes.
Icons may also be cast in metal, carved in stone, embroidered on cloth, painted on wood, done in mosaic or fresco work, printed on paper or metal, etc. Comparable images from Western Christianity are generally not classified as icons, although iconic may be used to describe a static style of devotional image.
Eastern Orthodox tradition holds that the production of Christian images dates back to the very early days of Christianity, and that it has been a continuous tradition since then. Modern academic art history considers that, while images may have existed earlier, the tradition can be traced back only as far as the 3rd century, and that the images which survive from Early Christian art often differ greatly from later ones. The icons of later centuries can be linked, often closely, to images from the 5th century onwards, though very few of these survive. Widespread destruction of images occurred during the Byzantine Iconoclasm of 726-842, although this did settle permanently the question of the appropriateness of images. Since then icons have had a great continuity of style and subject; far greater than in the images of the Western church. At the same time there has been change and development.
