(Anon) - Russian Ikon/Icon 17th Cent St. John the Baptist - Mirfield - art card

• Art Postcard

   

• Work of art title: Russian Ikon (17th Century) of St. John Baptist
• Artist (if known): Anon
• Media or other details: painting
• Publisher / Gallery: Community of the Resurrection, Mirfield
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): na
• Size: modern
• Notes & condition details:

NOTES:

Size: 'Modern' is usually around 6in x 4in / 'Old Standard' is usually around 5 1/2in x 3 1/2in. Larger sizes mentioned, but if you need to know the exact size please ask.

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Stock No.:A276

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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The use and making of icons entered Kievan Rus' following its conversion to Orthodox Christianity in 988 AD. As a general rule, these icons strictly followed models and formulas hallowed by Byzantine art, led from the capital in Constantinople. As time passed, the Russians widened the vocabulary of types and styles far beyond anything found elsewhere in the Orthodox world.

The personal, innovative and creative traditions of Western European religious art were largely lacking in Russia before the 17th century, when Russian icon painting became strongly influenced by religious paintings and engravings from both Protestant and Catholic Europe. In the mid-17th century changes in liturgy and practice instituted by Patriarch Nikon resulted in a split in the Russian Orthodox Church. The traditionalists, the persecuted ""Old Ritualists"" or ""Old Believers"", continued the traditional stylization of icons, while the State Church modified its practice. From that time icons began to be painted not only in the traditional stylized and non-realistic mode, but also in a mixture of Russian stylization and Western European realism, and in a Western European manner very much like that of Catholic religious art of the time. These types of icons, while found the Russian Orthodox churches, are also sometimes found in various sui juris rites of the Catholic Church.

Russian icons are typically paintings on wood, often small, though some in churches and monasteries may be much larger. Some Russian icons were made of copper.^[1] Many religious homes in Russia have icons hanging on the wall in the krasny ugol, the ""red"" or ""beautiful"" corner.

There is a rich history and elaborate religious symbolism associated with icons. In Russian churches, the nave is typically separated from the sanctuary by an iconostasis (Russian ikonostas, ?????????), or icon-screen, a wall of icons with double doors in the centre.

Russians sometimes speak of an icon as having been ""written"", because in the Russian language (like Greek, but unlike English) the same word (pisat', ?????? in Russian) means both to paint and to write. Icons are considered to be the Gospel in paint, and therefore careful attention is paid to ensure that the Gospel is faithfully and accurately conveyed.