Tag: icon
Russian Modernism and Byzantine Iconography – another false dichotomy
A recurrent pattern in the history of ideas is a dominant narrative creating dichotomies that, at the time, did not exist. I have blogged about these before – false tension…
Stained Glass from Church of St Laurence O’Toole, Kilmacud, Dublin
Opened on December 14th 1969 by Flann O’Brien’s English teacher the Church of St Laurence O’Toole in Kilmacud is one of those very late twentieth century ecclesiastical spaces in Dublin…
St Jerome in His Study, Albrecht Dürer
I first came across this engraving in an exhibition of Dürer engravings in the Chester Beatty Library over a decade ago. In my completely uninformed way, what struck me most was the…
Stained Glass from Powerstown, Clonmel, Tipperary Part 1
I have decided to take a slightly different approach to my posts on the Stained Glass of Tipperary churches (other prior posts here and here) – rather than an accumulation of blurry images I…
From “The Art of the Icon: A Theology of Beauty” – Paul Evdokimov
The Creator, like a divine poet, in bringing the world into being out of nothingness, composed his Symphony in Six Days, the Hexameron. After each one of his creative acts,…
Séamus Sweeney 