It is impossible to visit Italy, Greece, Germany, Yugoslavia, Romania, Russia, Bulgaria, the Middle East without becoming acquainted with a form of religious art called the icon. Used extensively in churches and homes in these countries, it has now become quite popular in the West where such art is being used for decorative purposes. Eastern Christians consider this a blasphemous distortion of the original intent of the icon. Not a few tourists today pay expensively for what they believe to be 16th or 17th century icons but which unfortunately turn out to be antique lithographs beautifully decoupaged. The word icon comes from the Greek word Eikon which means image. A famous German camera Zeis Ikon used this word as a trade name. St. Paul speaks of Christ as the Icon of God; that is what the phrase is in Greek. Christ is the Icon of God, and the whole New Testament is written on the basis that if you want to know what the Eternal God is like, you look at Jesus and see. In the West, religious art was placed on the windows of a church or cathedral. In the East the windows were left quite plain and the walls were covered with religious art. The purpose of icons is three-fold: 1. to create reverence in worship; 2. to instruct those who are unable to read; 3. to serve as an existential link between worshipper and God. youtube/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4ZCQXNw0Z34 Dimitri Anto Demetrios Gasparis Polychronis Tony Farmakis Alejandro Sandoval Nektarios Nectar Panagiotis Farmakis Fr. John Whiteford James Adam Cooper Maro Siouness Archimandrite Maximos Weimar George Costalas
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 04:51:07 +0000
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