The Online Icon Course traces the development of iconography, as it grew technically from the arts of the ancient civilisations around the Mediterranean, into the art of Christian iconography, as artists travailed to find a way to express the revelation of God made man, in Christ Jesus. All the Great Councils of the Universal Church, impacted on iconography, resulting in the canons of iconography in the 8th. century and the development of a unique art which, by its techniques, both points beyond this world to the divine, and celebrates the entry of the divine into this world to transform it. It gives credit to the orthodoxy of western iconography in the Anglo-Saxon and Romanesque west, while pinpointing the roots of divergence, which would lead eventually to Reformation iconoclasm. The course follows the historical progress of these techniques, up to the Baptism of the Rus’ in the 11th. century. Finally, it ends with an overview of the Christian arts in the liturgical buildings of the Orthodox East and the Medieval West, and explores ways an authentic iconography can be developed in the western diaspora.
The Online Icon Course comprises 2 lectures on Saturdays, roughly twice a month during term time, 2.30 pm & 4.00pm. The first lecture is a general study of the subject: the second lecture is about how this is applied technically in the icon. This course is open to anyone who wishes to understand the iconography of the Church in more depth. It is particularly useful to Icon students and professional iconographers, and those who need to make decisions about the content, quality and placing of icons in churches. Iconographers can follow these lectures up by private online tuition.
You can sign up for the series or for individual lectures on the subject of your choice.
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