GALLERY [2]: IconART

 

There is a separate page giving a description and commentary on each icon panel

The panels appearing at the foot of the page are painted from the following prototypes:

·         The Birth of the Holy Virgin.  Greek.  20^th Century.

·         The Presentation of the Holy Virgin in the Temple.  Cretan.  15^th Century.

·         The Annunciation of the Theotokos.  Russian.  16^th Century.

·         The Dormition of the Mother of God.  Cretan.  15^th Century.

·         The Nativity of Christ.  Russian – Novgorod.  Attributed to 15^th Century.

·         The Presentation of Christ in the Temple.  Russian.  Ca. 1500.

·         The Baptism of Christ.  Russian.  16^th Century.

·         The Transfiguration of Christ.  Russian – Novgorod.  15^th Century.

·         Christ's Entry into Jerusalem.  Russian.  16^th Century.

·         The Ascension of Christ.  Russian.  16^th Century.

·         The Pentecost.  Russian – Novgorod.  15^th Century.

·         The Resurrection or the Descent into Hades.  Russian.  15^th Century.

The description of, and commentary on, each icon is from my booklet, Icons of the Great Feasts.  

In the icons displayed below, some of the features; especially the faces, are not painted as delicately as they might or should be.  As the panels were going to be photographed in black and white, I had to over-emphasise and embolden certain features in order to "bring them out" in the black and white illustrations.  Also, because of the illustrations being in black and white, it was not essential to gild the backgrounds.  For this reason I selected prototypes, which, unusually, did not always have a gilded background.  And where they did, I used "gold" tempera.