Orthodoxy in art

[kelly]

Self-explanatory, it's a thread for art that has Orthodox elements or themes (no icons or photographs)

"Holy Communion" (2009 )- don't know the artist.

"Holy Friday (La vestale chretienne)" (1885) by Theodore Jacques Ralli. I love the fallen candle.

"St. Olga" by Mikhail Nesterov.

Another Nesterov - "A Hermit with a Bear" (1925).

"Confession" (no artist name)

And finally, for Mor Ephrem:

"Fourth Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon" (1876) by Vasily Surikov.

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I have plenty more in my vast Pinterest.

 

[Luke]

I like the art.

 

[kelly]

"Taking the veil" - Nesterov.

"Girl at the window" - Jan Walach.

No info on this one.

 

[hecma925]

Vision to the Youth Bartholemew (1890)

I love Nesterov.  There's a starkness to his paintings, especially in facial features, that I like.

 

[Minnesotan]

Jean-Paul Laurens, John Chrysostom and Aelia Eudoxia

 

[hecma925]

Vasily Grigorevich Perov

First Christians of Kiev (1880)

Nikita Pustosviat. Dispute on the Confession of Faith (1881)

 

[hecma925]

St. Nicholas saves three innocents from death, 1888, painting by Ilya Repin.

 

[Minnesotan]

It's by Feodosiy Humeniuk (don't know the title).

 

[hecma925]

Surikov's Second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople, 1876

 

[Minnesotan]

Here's a few for Salpy that I found:

"Moghni--Church of St. George--1661 AD"

The Church at Lake Sevan

Eternal Flame (Yerevan) / Gomidas Vartabed

Mt. Ararat

Monastery at Geghart

They are all from Mary Zakarian's website and were painted by her.

 

[hecma925]

The Slav Epic by Alfons Mucha is delightfully trippy at times, but has a lot of strength through the whole series.

No. 17, The Holy Mount Athos, (1926)

 

[hecma925]

The Secret School (1886) by Nikolaos Gyzis

 

[Gebre Menfes Kidus]

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[Arachne]

Arkadi 1866, unknown artist

Revolution, by Theodore Vryzakis (1865)

The destruction of Kouggi, waxwork by Pavlos Vrellis

 

[hecma925]

St. Elizabeth the New Martyr watercolor, by a Monk at St. Tikhon's Monastery.

Elder Paisios pen, 2013, by a Monk at St. Tikhon's Monastery.

Monastery Church and Belltower at Twilight watercolor, by a Monk at St. Tikhon's Monastery.

 

[hecma925]

Sts. Anthony and Theodosius, Founders of Kiev Caves Lavra.   I'm not sure who painted it.

 

[hecma925]

An Ethiopian Monk.  No further info on artist.

 

[NanaDeborah]

Oh wonderful! More please! I am loving this!

 

[hecma925]

Kosovo Maiden by Uroš Predić, (1919)

 

[TheTrisagion]

Great thread idea!

 

[Didyma]

Oooh!  Good idea!

 

[Nephi]

Subscriban'.

 

[hecma925]

Sergey Miloradovich

Court Over Patriarch Nikon

Defense of the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra against the Poles in 1610

Rupture of patriarch Nikon with tsar Aleksey Mihajlovich

Solovetsky Monastery Uprising

 

[kelly]

Coronation of Alexander III - artist unknown.

Tsarevna's visit of nunnery - Vasily Surikov.

I have no info on this one.

Don't know the title, but the artist is Nesterov.

 

[Shlomlokh]

I love this thread! This is great. I want to track some of it down to put up in our apartment. My wife will love it. I was actually thinking of starting a thread on this, but kelly beat me to it!

In Christ,
Andrew

 

[minasoliman]

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[Antonis]

Farewell to Rus, Pavel Korin

A preliminary sketch of a massive painting that was to be Korin's masterpiece. Unfortunately, he died before it could be completed. It depicts the last liturgy celebrated in the Moscow Cathedral before the Soviets ended it.

For a detailed, bigger version, check out:

http://01varvara.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/pavel-korin-farewell-to-rus-study-1939.jpg

 

[Antonis]

Some interesting ones by Ilya Glazunov. The image urls lead to the full-size versions.

The Destruction of the Church on Easter Eve.

Eternal Russia


He has a lot of very powerful paintings, more can be accessed here:

http://www.tanais.info/art/en/glazunov.html

 

[DeniseDenise]

I have no info on this one.

Can I just say the young lady all the way to the right looks like she is 'up to something' ???

 

[Hawkeye]

Farewell to Rus, Pavel Korin

A preliminary sketch of a massive painting that was to be Korin's masterpiece. Unfortunately, he died before it could be completed. It depicts the last liturgy celebrated in the Moscow Cathedral before the Soviets ended it.

For a detailed, bigger version, check out:

http://01varvara.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/pavel-korin-farewell-to-rus-study-1939.jpg

42 years he spent preparing but he never actually got around to paint it proper. Unfortunate, indeed.

I wonder how historical he meant the painting to actually be, given that the three Patriarchs of his lifetime, St. Tikhon, Sergius, and Alexius I, seem to be depicted vested as such simultaneously. I can't say I recognize any other famous figures, anachronistic or not, but I'm sure they're there.

 

[Sam G]

Here are some of the Nesterov paintings I know of that haven't appeared yet on this:

The Soul of the People

Holy Rus'

Taking the Veil

St. Sergius's Labors

Vesper

 

[biro]

Oh wow. Those are beautiful. 

 

[minasoliman]

"Palm Sunday" by Guirguis Lotfi

Source

 

[Minnesotan]

"Palm Sunday" by Guirguis Lotfi

Source

Neat! I didn't know there were Coptic artists. I had been searching Google for art by and about Middle Eastern Christians, EO and OO, and didn't find anything (except, of course, the Armenian paintings by Mary Zakarian above).

 

[minasoliman]

Ya, he's very interesting.  He's using a bit of Coptic style art used in iconography to depict everyday Egyptian cultural practices and gatherings.  So his is not necessarily religious.  This is the only one I can find of his that is religious.

 

[IXOYE]

Excellent thread!

 

[hecma925]

St Nil Stolobensky by Vasili Nesterenko (2003).

 

[minasoliman]

wow...that is almost photo-like

 

[Nephi]

 

[hecma925]

Easter (1913) by Pavel Filonov