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How depict the invisible? How picture the inconcivable? How give expression to the limitless, the immeasurable, the invisible? How give form to immensity? How paint immortality? How localise mystery?
John of Damascus
GALLERIES
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Icons
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Mother of God Eleousa |
Christ the Saviour |
The Archangel Gabriel |
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Mandylion |
Mother of God Eleousa |
Christ |
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Don't cry for me, Mother |
Christ the Saviour |
Mother of God Hodegetria |
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Christ Pantokrator |
Emmanuel |
The Archangel Gabriel |
Icons are both in techniques, motives and in purpose the exact opposite of modern art.
In spite of this - or perhaps because of it - they still speak to us.
Text and images: Marianne Selvik