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Orthodox Russian Icons - Izograph Studio
Description
Russian iconography and Orthodox Christianity have their origins in Byzantium more than one thousand years ago. After three centuries of decline, a small group of enthusiastic artists are today helping to spark a renaissance. The prohibition of icon painting in the Soviet Union was abolished at the end of 80s. Prior to that, in Soviet epoch, icon painters were forced to work underground.
Pokrovsky started to paint icons in 1969. She graduated from Moscow University with a degree in biophysics in 1966 and worked for three years as a researcher before iconography became her true vocation. It was Fr. Alexander Men, who noticed her artistic talent, and persuaded her to change careers in favor of service to the Church. He blessed her to become an iconographer. Xenia Pokrovsky is now a master of this nearly lost traditional Russian art of iconography made famous by the world-renowned Russian icon painters Andrey Rublev and Dionisius. Their technique uses only egg-based tempera and natural mineral pigments, providing a rich palette of colors which maintain their vibrancy over centuries. The pigments are usually prepared by the icon painters themselves by grinding natural stones or purifying clays.
Xenia Pokrovsky has achieved an extraordinarily high level of skill as an international restorer of 14th-16th century icons now held in private collections. Her art is firmly based on knowledge of Orthodox theology, Orthodox Church history, and the symbolic and semantic language of iconography.
Contact
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- Sharon MA
- US 02067
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- 781-784-8205
