Russian orthodox art

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The Icon of the Mother of God “Of the Sign”, depicts the Most Holy Theotokos with prayerfully uplifted hands, and the Divine Infant is at Her bosom in a mandorla (or sphere). This depiction of the Mother of God is regarded as one of the very first of Her iconographic images. In the…

‘Savior’ was created in 1901 by Viktor Vasnetsov in Romanticism style. Find more prominent pieces of religious painting at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

As we work our way through an enormous cache of fascinating Russian Christian paintings which we are presenting in the Great Russian Christian Art Series, we can't help but fall in love with some of them. About the series: As we learned about Russia's traditional faith, Russian Orthodox Christianity, we discovered an enormous, mostly forgotten treasure of striking Christian paintings, mostly unknown in the West, starting from approximately the early 1800s, and continuing to this day. So far…

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Vasnetsov Viktor Mikhailovich — Savior, 1901 Oil on canvas cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Orthodox Schema monks

Does habitual exposure to digital images destroy the stillness of heart required for seeing God within our soul?