language mystical uncreated transfiguration

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Solrunn Nes

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005

Informative and Inspirational
I read "The Language of Icons" with the intention of learning more about the mode of religious art most characteristic of Eastern Christianity. The book far exceeded my expectations. I learned more about icons than I ever would have hoped. The reproductions of representative icons were beautiful and luminous. Moreover, the text was deeply spiritual and inspiring. The reader is drawn to ...

The Mystical Language Of Icons
Solrunn Nes

Eerdmans Pub Co, 2005

The Uncreated Light: An Iconographiocal Study of the Transfiguration In the Eastern Church

1 review
Solrunn Nes

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007

Radiant Light
Solrunn Nes's own iconographic work is strikingly her own, yet it is well within the Church's tradition. Her icons are bright, spare, free of busyness and visual "noise," and immediate to the beholder. Perhaps it is the provenance of her work, painted in her homeland of Norway, that inspires something of its luminosity and vibrancy of color. The highest compliment I can pay her work, though, ...