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Iconography, Byzantine Decorative Rosettes, Diameter about 3 feet - 1 meter.
05/31/2024

Iconography, Byzantine Decorative Rosettes, Diameter about 3 feet - 1 meter.

At last and Glory to God! The road is endless..!(Further work will be carried out within the Church..)
06/23/2021

At last and Glory to God! The road is endless..!
(Further work will be carried out within the Church..)

In the Eastern Orthodox churche, the Sunday of Pentecost is called Holy Trinity Sunday or Descent of the Holy Spirit. Th...
06/06/2020

In the Eastern Orthodox churche, the Sunday of Pentecost is called Holy Trinity Sunday or Descent of the Holy Spirit. The Monday after Pentecost is called Monday of the Holy Spirit. This year celebrated: On Sunday June 7, 2020.

The icon of the Holy Trinity in the Orthodox Church has two forms: One form is the portrayal of the three angels, with the inscription The Holy Trinity or The Hospitality of Abraham .
The second type is the portrayal of the three personage of the Holy Trinity: the Father (the Christ as the ''Ancient of Days''), depicted as an old man, the Son (as incarnation Son) who is seated at the Father's right, and the Holy spirit in the semblance of a dove.
*Τhis type of depiction of the Holy Trinity is under Western influence.

In Byzantine iconography, the Father is never depicted. instead, He is represented by Christ as the ''Ancient of Days''.
Because the Father was never incarnated, as was Christ with His incarnation, hence no-one has actually seen God the Father.

Because we do not know who He is, and it is impossible to describe and portray the nature of God; if we had seen Him and recognized Him -as we did His Son- we would have described and depicted Him also ." (Minutes of the 7 th Ecumenical Synod)

Also the Seventh Ecumenical Council tells us: “Iconography is not an invention of artists but an approved institution of the Catholic Church…It is the conception and tradition of the fathers and not of an artist. Only the skill belongs to the artist, but the regulation belongs to the venerable fathers.”
In other words, an iconographer can not paint anything according to his/her imagination.

* Icons:
- The Holy Trinity, 2nd half of the 16th cent. Possibly by Michael Damaskenos. Antivouniotissa church & Byzantine Museum. Corfu, Greece.

- The Hospitality of Abraham, Zakynthos, early 15th century, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens, Greece

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