Monastery Icons, the online catalog icon company (MonasteryIcons.com) has posted their time-lapsed video about how an icon is painted on YouTube. It shows how an icon is painted, from conception to completion. It is fascinating to see an icon come alive, from the sketch, to underlying layers, to the finishing layers and fine details.
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Monastery Icons Posts YouTube Video on Painting Icons
Posted in Uncategorized on June 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Icons of the Monastery of St. Catherine of Sinai
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In March of 2007 I had the good fortune of visiting the Getty Museum in Los Angeles to visit the exhibit, “Holy Image/Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai.” This was a collection of icons on loan from the Monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai. Saint Catherine’s Monastery is the oldest continually inhabited Christian monastery in [...]
