Orthodox holiday and icons

Orthodox icon types, there is a class devoted to the great Orthodox holiday-themed icons. Orthodox icons in the walls, there is a row of icons is dedicated to the theme of the program to do, called "program ratings."

Orthodox festival vast amount of these festivals to commemorate Jesus Christ, the Virgin and the saints. According to statistics, including the number of saint's day included, the number of Orthodox festival has exceeded the number of days in a year, that is to say every day of the year with one or several programs. Of course, the importance of these programs and the grand degree programs sample sizes.

The main festivals include Orthodox Easter and XII festival. This section XII eight commemorates Jesus Christ: Christmas, the main input Church Festival (Festival met the Lord Jesus Christ), God Epiphany (Baptism of Jesus), the main section into the holy city, the main variable capacitance section, cross section, and a section of the main Assumption of the Holy Trinity. The other four are in honor of the Virgin: the Virgin Birth Day, into the Church of Our Lady Day, Feast of the Assumption.

The festival is divided into no fixed date and fixed date. Easter is not a fixed date, and another section XII of three is not fixed a date, and the main gold Al-Quds Day, the main Assumption and Holy Trinity Day, the date from which to calculate the date of Easter. The other nine are fixed dates.

When the Easter celebration of Christ's resurrection, the resurrection of Christ as we happen to us things. Because each of us to have been a gift of new life, so that we get the capacity to receive new life. This presents a fundamental change in the attitude of our time together, including attitudes to death.

The festival of moral thought that, as the Son of God for us and willing born on the same ground, people for the same purpose, should also be born again, or, according to the Apostle's words; "ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man's, This understanding of privacy and confusion gradually deteriorated.

our lady of kazan byzantine orthodox icon on wood

Orthodox "iconography" is unique in the art of Christian worship patterns

Orthodox "iconography" is unique in the art of Christian worship patterns, and Catholic and Protestant religious art differently. It is called "visual theology." Russian medieval icon painting is synonymous with the art of the Orthodox Church norms According to tradition the church Byzantine art, in an ideal form of figures and objects appearance or to limit the icon painter painting forms and themes, and a living icon painter Convention required strict compliance with the purpose of creating.
"Iconography" emphasize the other side depicts a non-earthly world, and this side of the world is relatively secular. So whether it is painting or the artist themselves to practice requirements are strict control, because it is "like the soul", not with screen similar to the real world. as long as prayers saw his familiar objects and portraits of worship, this set of modeling, the dogma of the supernatural will come to the fore in his mind as to generate strong religious feeling in his heart. So ultra nature art standardization helps to develop a certain prayer worship habits.
Early Russian icon painter painting together under the supervision of the Greek artist, in text or illustration of the way to record the characteristics of each saint and painting, the notes by way of mentoring taught from generation to generation, and with Greece priests have brought along when entering the Russian painter indoctrinated mission, to show the magnificent Byzantine icons and composition perfect again to Justinian era statue of St. Sofia church benchmark.
However, with the decline of Byzantium, stopped on the "spiritual inspiration" and the technical guidance of Russia, appeared in Russia each draw icon nature of the convent or icon studio in the transcript as textbooks or reference books, it is well-known on the icon extension rubbing down and facsimile diagram, guides artist (monk) follows the old mode, simply scripted without tiring way to go around the church and convent observe each artist hand are equipped with a number of icon painting from wood or rubbing down the wall pictures, these extension illustrated diagram like saints calendar, in order to allow convenient copying process, there must be next to the text commentary.

Iconoclasm period of Byzantine icons

Byzantine art after a 6-7 century AD prosperity, from the beginning of the 8th century to the mid-ninth century AD, caught in a long dark age, which is dominated by the country at the time of religious and cultural life iconoclasm caused. During this period, the entire religious art suffered a disaster. Previous era of religious themes of art chant mercilessly destroyed. Frescoes and mosaics are shovel down from the wall, iconostasis were burned. Jun Fort of Our Lady of Vladimir hum all ancient iconostasis were destroyed, the chapel walls were painted new murals.

In the letter of Saint Stephen, a biography about this event wrote: "Christ, the Virgin and Saints icons chant burning and destruction: on the contrary, trees, birds, animals, and as such ferocious gallop hunting scene , theater and the racecourse and other images, were carefully preserved ... and your church into a garden aviary

It is said that the Byzantine emperor Shi Jun but  had ordered to replace the church wall murals depicting the Great Society into six portraits of Auriga their loved ones

But Christian art in this dark period has not completely disappeared, but the continued existence of the regime and the state power away from the religious places. In the monastery's remote areas (such as in Cappadocia or the Crimea), the faithful still as before in front of icons in prayer, for this is also another secret of painting icons.

Orthodox icon is a different from other art forms of religious art. Russian Orthodox theologian Bulgakov said: "Power Dekor is a special kind of church tradition, but he was not verbal and writing, but in color and image reflect Therefore, Dekor themes and methods. to follow the tradition of the Church, which determines its content, meaning and form. icons of religious works of art, rather than "art for art" works

Since the icon is not self-sufficient sense of art, but belong to the Orthodox Church theology and worship, therefore, the characteristics associated with it, the basic idea is not as an independent art form of icon art history book.

This book is a symbol of Orthodox icons in this particular form of religious history occur, theological sense, the performance of the method, the basic type and narration in major countries such as the historical development of the overall structure into three parts, the first part is about the early Christian art form, the doctrine of the Orthodox iconostasis and icons surplus establish general methods and characteristics: the second part is the age of the various types of icons are described: the third part is the Byzantine, Greek and Russian icons of art history development a brief description.