VOLUME 10(3) • 2022
The Prayer of the Holy Apostles in the Iconography of the Palatine Chapel (Sicily)
ABSTRACT. The canonical text of Acts describes the spiritual confrontation between Simon Magus and the Apostles Peter and John in Samaria. The biblical episode was developed by apocryphal literature, the conflict becoming a paradigm of the struggle between truth and false, under the eyes of the citi..
The Gospel Printed at Neamț Monastery in 1821: A Masterpiece of Romanian Typographic Art
ABSTRACT. The study aims to offer a rigorous stylistic analysis of a Gospel dated in 1821, the first illustrated Gospel in Romania. This book, printed at the Neamț Monastery, one of the most important printing centers in Romania, is certainly a model of typographic art. The 1821 Gospel is a large fo..
The Mural Painting at the Narthex of the Dochiariou Monastery: History and Style
ABSTRACT. The study aims at providing an analysis of the architecture and narthex mural paintings of Dochiariou Monastery, which is among the most beautiful and important places in the churches of Mount Athos. Although the monastery was founded in the 10th century, the current catholicon was built b..
The Research and Conservation of Metal Revetments Icons in Romania
ABSTRACT. The paper presents data related to the conservation problems of the icons whose pictorial layer is covered with metal revetment, as well as their research and conservation methods. The degradation of the icons through the development of biological attacks, the fragility of the painting is ..
Creative Hypostases in the Representation of Several Scenes in the life of the Pious Irinarh Roset
ABSCTRACT. Brief presentation of some pictorial, compositional and iconographical aspects for the representation of some main moments in the monastic life of the pious Irinarh Roset, the founder of the monastic settlement in Horaiţa. {downloads}{slider Author's contact} TUDOR VASILEvasile.tudor@gm..
1 Cor 11:2-16: A Theology of Beauty
ABSCTRACT. This paper is an attempt to answer the question of the supremacy of men over women, as understood by some readers of the Apostle Paul, who relied on one specific fragment from the first epistle to the Corinthians. The pericope which this paper now addresses – 1 Cor 11:2 16 – is one of the..