Mystical Language of Icons
$66.57
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2009
Summary
This lavishly illustrated guide to iconography explains through words and pictures the history, meaning, and purpose of Christian icons as well as the traditional methods that religious painters use to create these luminous, spiritually enlivened works of art. Solrunn Nes, one of Europe’s most admired iconographers, illuminates the world of Christ
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780802864970 |
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| ISBN-10: | 080286497X |
| Author: | Solrunn Nes |
| Publisher: | William B Eerdmans Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | William B Eerdmans Publishing Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2009 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 165mm x 241mm |
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Critics Review
Theological Book Review
“This beautifully illustrated book provides the reader with an excellent guide to understanding icons… For anyone interested in the production and meaning of icons, this book will be essential reading.”
New Directions
“I guarantee you will not be disappointed by the reproductions in this book of Solrunn Nes’ icons. The colours are vibrant and the faces of the figures arrest the attention of the viewer – as of course they should.”
Dallas Morning News
“Nes offers a fascinating survey of Christian icons … accompanied by full-color images of her work.”
Touchstone
“Solrunn Nes has produced a fine guide to iconography in her Mystical Language of Icons. The book is lavishly illustrated in full color throughout with Nes’s own icons, each in the style of one of the various schools with which she is most conversant. All are striking and luminous – and fully in accord with the objective canonical tradition. Her work reveals how one committed prayerfully to the latter can nonetheless produce art of obvious creativity. This book is unreservedly recommended.”
Solrunn Nes
Solrunn Nes is an art historian, freelance lecturer, and writer. Her iconography can be seen in Aylesford Priory in England and St Paul’s Church in Bergen, Norway.
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