Dom Alex Echeandía, OSB: "This blog reflects on what many people ask about God and His image. In a way, it focuses on questions like: How should art depict the relationship between man and God? How can art best express eternal values? Can you, and should you, portray the face of Christ? For many centuries these were some of the questions which taxed the minds of the greatest artists of Western Christianity. For Eastern Christianity, the sacred icons make that connection between God and man in Christ, the perfect and ideal Image of God: Imago Dei."
Art of Eternity: The Glory of Byzantium
This is an
extraordinary series of videos given by Andrew Graham-Dixon at Istanbul. He immerse himself in the tumultuous world of
the Byzantine Empire in order to show us the art that emerges from the
iconography.
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