Ikons and Iconography

• ABOUT:
  • Élisabeth Behr-Sigel: Reflexions sur l'Iconostase, (undated). From Le Monde des Icones, Neuchatel: Ides et Calendes, n.d. --- Intratext
  • Jim Forest: Praying with Icons, (1997). Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1997.
  • Aidan Hart: On Icons. Numerous interesting talks and articles by a well-known British iconographer. --- Aidan Hart
  • Kenneth Parry: Depicting the Word -- Byzantine Iconophile Thought of the Eighth and Ninth Centuries, (1996). Leiden: Brill, 1996.
  • I. P. Sheldon-Williams: The Philosophy of Icons, (1967). Chapter 33 of The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy edited by A. H. Armstrong, (Cambridge, 1967).
  • Christos Yannaras: The Ethos of Liturgical Art. Chapter from The Freedom of Morality, Crestwood: SVS, 1984. --- Blagovest Bells

  • St. Andrew of Crete: De SS. Imaginum Veneratione. (On the Veneration of the Holy Ikons) PG 97:1301.
  • St. Leontius of Neapolis in Cyprus: Contra Judæos et de imaginibus (Against the Jews, and On Images ). PG 93:1597-1612. Sermons. The one on images is important in presenting, well in advance of the iconoclast controversy, a powerful theological defence of ikons.

• ABOUT: History: Judaism:
  • Bezalel Narkiss: "Living the Dead Became": The Prophet Elijah as a Holy Image in Early Jewish Art, (1995). In D. Mouriki et al., eds., Byzantine East, Latin West, Princeton University Dept. of Art and Archaeology, 1995. Mainly about the iconography of the Dura Europos synagogue.

• ABOUT: History: Pre-Schism West:
  • Aidan Hart: Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and Romanesque Iconography, (1997). --- Aidan Hart

• ABOUT: History: Soviet Era:
  • Andrew L. Jenks: Russia in a Box, (2005). Northern Illinois University, 2005. About how after the Revolution iconographers became "palekh masters", creating wooden boxes decorated with secular and folkloric scenes.

• ABOUT: History: XX Century:
  • Aidan Hart: Iconographers of the Twentieth Century, (2000). --- Aidan Hart

• Types:
  • Mosaics
  • Murals

• Images of the Saviour:
  • General:
    • [Roman Catholic Bishop] Christoph Schönborn: God's Human Face -- The Christ Icon, (1976). San Francisco: Ignatius, 1994.

• Images of the Theotokos:
  • Sitka Ikon:
    • The Sitka Icon, (2005) From The Orthodox Church, (41/8,9,10) p.4. --- OCA
  • Valaam Ikon:
    • The Valaam Icon, (2005) From The Orthodox Church, (41/8,9,10) p.4. --- OCA
  • Zoögraphou Ikon: An ikon which survived the destruction of the monastery by the Catalans in mediæval times.
    • The "Akathist-Zographou" Ikon. --- St. John's Cathedral, DC

  Ikons of Saints:

  • St. George